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... dancers . In the back is a big Western bar , where a six - member " hat band " was playing when I visited the Sun. In ... dance . He had haunted eyes and became acutely uncomfortable when I touched his hand . We went to a corner of the ...
... dancers . In the back is a big Western bar , where a six - member " hat band " was playing when I visited the Sun. In ... dance . He had haunted eyes and became acutely uncomfortable when I touched his hand . We went to a corner of the ...
Page 131
... dance floor four guys were passing poppers , stomping fast and hard and ripping out rebel yells . Given the heat , the humidity and the darkness outside , the feeble porch- lights streaked with worrying mosquitoes , the disco seemed all ...
... dance floor four guys were passing poppers , stomping fast and hard and ripping out rebel yells . Given the heat , the humidity and the darkness outside , the feeble porch- lights streaked with worrying mosquitoes , the disco seemed all ...
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... dance at Harvard is a farce . The way to make a gay dance a Harvard gay dance would be to invite lots of straight people . The point is : the Harvard manner is so alluring that no gay could ever abandon it for , say , a gay manner . I ...
... dance at Harvard is a farce . The way to make a gay dance a Harvard gay dance would be to invite lots of straight people . The point is : the Harvard manner is so alluring that no gay could ever abandon it for , say , a gay manner . I ...
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