The Gays Pioneer
July, 1977
The odd thing about it is that you see them during the day, scurrying along Madison Avenue in three-piece suits, sipping jasmine tea at Serendipity, selling shoes, digging ditches, dyeing fabric, reading Doris Lessing on the subway. Some are detectable, others invisible, which is to say, (concluded overleaf) they don't wave lavender hankies, swish or dress in drag. It is estimated that they make up 15 percent of the population of Manhattan--and they don't all live in Greenwich Village.But come t...
