179. THE PURE AND THE IMPURE BY SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE, NEW YORK, FARRAR & RINEHART, 1933.
THIS IS THE ONLY ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF COLETTE'S GREATEST BOOK, CES PLAISIRS, COPIES OF THIS SEMI-MEMOIRS, SEMI-NONFICTION WORK ARE RARE, BUT THE SEARCH IS WORTHWHILE. WITH GREAT DISCRETION AND UNDERSTANDING THE GREAT LADY OF FRENCH LETTERS TELLS OF HER FRIENDSHIP WITH MANY LESBIANS AND MALE HOMOSEXUALS IN THE LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CIRCLES IN PARIS AT THE TUẦN CF THE CENTURY. INCLUDED ARE LONG CHAPTERS ON RENEE VIVIEN AND 'THE MARQUISE', A LESBIAN TRANSVESTITE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL HYMN OF PRAISE SUNG TO THE LADIES OF LLANGOLLEN. ALSO CANDID, AMUSING OBSERVATIONS OF THE RANKS OF MALE DON JUANS, AND ANALYSIS OF A SORT OF MANY MALE HOMOSEXUALS.
180. PILGRIMS IN THE ZOO AND OTHER STORIES BY BRUCE BROOKS. BOSTON, BEACON PRESS, 1960.
THIS MACABRE COLLECTION IS RIFE WITH HOMOSEXUAL INCIDENTS. TITLE STORY IS MALE, OF THE SWISHY VARIETY. "EYE OF NATURE" IS RATHER GRISLY OVERT LESBIANISM. "JOURNEY THROUGH THE SKIN" FEATURES A LESBIAN AS MOTHER OF THE YOUNG HERO. ALL WELL WRITTEN AND INCLUDE SOME HOMOSEXUALITY, BUT VERY AVANT GARDE.
181. TWILIGHT GIRL BY DELLA MARTIN. BEACON BOOKS, 1961.
AN UNUSUAL INTUITIVE BOOK. THE CONFUSED LON, SO LIKE THE AVERAGE TEENAGE LESBIAN; MAVIS, THE UNFORGETTAELE NEGRO GIRL LON LOVES, WHO SPCUTS PHILOSOPHY IN AN ALTERNATELY CULTURED VOICE AND "MASSA" TALK, ARE EXCELLENT. THE DISCUSSION OF RENEE VIVIEN AND THE TRANSLATION OF ONE OF HER SONNETS ARE WELL WORTH THE PRICE OF THE BOOK.
182. SEX LIFE OF THE MODERN ADULT BY DR. LELAND E. GLOVER. BELMONT BOOKS, 1961.
A SURPRISINGLY HUMANE AND UNDOGMATIC TREATMENT OF THE LIFE HISTORIES OF SEVERAL LESBIAN AND MALE HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES. THIS TREATMENT IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE REASON THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ONLY IN PAPERBACK. A WORTHWHILE ADDITION TO THE "SCIENTIFIC" TREATMENT OF THE HOMOPHILE.
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