We, Too, Must Love by Ann Aldrich

We, Too, Must Love

Ann Aldrich

FROM THE BACK COVER: ‘In 1955 I wrote a book called WE WALK ALONE, a study of a lesbian by a lesbian. After its publication, I received 100s of letters…they wanted to know more about the female homosexual………….This book is an answer to those letters as well as a supplement to WE WALK ALONE. In it I have written of the whys and wherefores of lesbian life in New York City—as I have known it.’—Ann Aldrich.

Three years after We Walk Alone, Ann Aldrich expands on her journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York to include: class questions; the diverse jobs lesbians held; social cliques; differences among the ‘Village,’ ‘Uptown,’ and Brooklyn communities; and hints at the growing consciousness that would fuel later lesbian and gay rights movements. The sequel closes with sample letters from the six hundred written to Aldrich after We Walk Alone was published.

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Introduction to the 2006 Edition / Marijane Meaker

Foreword / Ann Aldrich

1 Togetherness…The Dress, Humor, Vocabulary of the Lesbian; the Cliques 1

2 A Girl ‘Comes Out’…Three Very Different Girls Become Lesbians in Three Very Different Cliques 10

3 Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?…The Low-Life Clique 24

4 The Circle in the Square…The Greenwich Village Clique 33

5 The Girl in the Brooks Brothers Shirt…The Uptown Clique 43

6 The Very Gay, Come-What-May Places…A Night in the Bars 53

7 Sisters in the Sun…Fire Island, the Hamptons, Riis Park 67

8 Liquor is Quicker…Why They Drink 80

9 The Fifty-Minute Power…Lesbians on the Couch 88

10 The Men in Their Lives…Joe and Rodger, Howie and Lou 94

11 My Husband Says…Married Lesbians 104

12 A Catered Affair…A Party Uptown-One Hundred Women and a Man 121

13 Hands-Around…The Paul Jones Ephemeralness of Lesbians 128

14 Old Soldiers Never Die…Lesbians in Their Old Age 133

15 Dear Ann Aldrich The Reader Writes 142

16 A Final Word… 153

Afterword: Productive Contradictions / Stephanie Foote 159


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Details

Genre Pulp; Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Copyright Date 02-Jan-58
Publication Date ND
Publisher Eclipse
Format Mass Market Paperback
No. of Pages 188
Notes
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Lesbians – Fiction
BookID 14327

Author: LFWBooks