1 could hardly wait to get back to that bar: Lesbian bar culture in buffalo in the 1930s and 1940s

Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-72

  Lapovsky Kennedy, Elizabeth ^a   Davis, Madeline D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 85073856763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203699119-7     Document Type: Chapter

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