Bughouse blues

an intimate portrait of gay hustling in Chicago

1st ed.
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Bughouse blues

an intimate portrait of gay hustling in Chicago

1st ed.
  • 3 Want to read

Bughouse Blues was an early nonfiction novel of sorts. It contains many stories of the gay hustling underworld in Chicago in the mid 1970's. The names are all changed to protect the guilty, as the introduction states. The material was supplied by Richard Raff (1948-1975), who was gay and frequented hustlers almost exclusively. He was an extremely overweight, unattractive, and very erudite young man who had no other sexual outlet in the very repressed, closeted gay world of mid 1970's Chicago. The book was co-written with his close friend Gerald Nicosia, a professional writer, not gay but very sympathetic to Richard's plight and the life he was experiencing at the time. Most of the action takes place around Bughouse Square (real name: Washington Square), a real location in Chicago which at that time was the nexus for gay hustling in Chicago.

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Publisher
Vantage Press
Language
English
Pages
207

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Bughouse blues: an intimate portrait of gay hustling in Chicago
1977, Vantage Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
301.41/54
Library of Congress
HQ76.2.U5 N52

The Physical Object

Pagination
207 p., [1] leaf of plates ;
Number of pages
207

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4599924M
ISBN 10
0533025311
LCCN
77362797
OCLC/WorldCat
3311389
Library Thing
4520220
Goodreads
1168312

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