The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: a Gay life in the 1940s by Brown, Ricardo J., edited by William Reichard, foreword by Allan H. Spear - 2001

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Hardcover. xvii, 155p., foreword, glossy 8p. b&w photo section, crease on front free endpaper else a very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Memoir of the journalist who came out in 1945 while in the Navy and was dishonorably discharged. He returned to Minnesota and became involved in the nightlife gay & lesbian scene at the bar which catered to blue collar workers in the daytime and blue collar gays and lesbians at night.