Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s
Gray-haired grandmother Helen P. Branson was about the last person you’d expect to run a gay bar in 1950s Hollywood, yet for the better part of a decade she cheerfully served up beer and sympathy to the men she affectionately referred to as her boys. Sixty years later, when writer and anthologist Will Fellows (Farm Boys) discovered a copy of her long out-of-print memoir, he knew Helen’s was a story worth telling. Combining her original text with his own biographical sleuthing, cultural criticism and historical research, Fellows brings those pre-Stonewall days roaring back to life.
