Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
By: James Kirchick
4.17
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair 's “Be…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"Scratch the surface and what do you get?" asked Way Bandy, the two-thousand-dollars-a-day make up artist who "designed" Nancy's face. "More surface."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"The following year, Kramer would put on Just Say No, "a play about a farce" based in the fictional country of New Columbia, wherein everyone call's the president "Daddy", the First Lady is a harridan named "Mrs. Potentate" and the couple's ballet dancer son pines for his Secret Service detail"-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
"It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexuals working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him."-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
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Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
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