The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary : a Non-fiction Account, with Commentaries, of Three Days and Nights in the Sexual Underground
- ISBN-10
- 0802131638
- ISBN-13
- 9780802131638
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 307
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- John Rechy
Description
This angry, elegant outcry against homosexual oppression is an explosive nonfiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground of Los Angeles in the seventies.
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- 1977-01-01
- 307 pages
- Paperback
- Random House (NY)
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