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<p>&ldquo;Walk tall, man, &rdquo; the junkie behind him whispered. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t let the bastards see that you care.&rdquo; They were standing in line at police headquarters in Los Angeles, waiting to be fingerprinted. The twenty-two year old writer had just been arrested on a &ldquo;vag-lewd&rdquo; charge. Or, to put it more clearly, he had been busted for being gay. Entrapment, police stings, and unauthorized raids were still the acceptable tactics for catching and imprisoning gays in America in the mid-twentieth century. The gay world, regarded as criminal or sick, was a scorned minority with its own private vocabulary, but no voice politically, forced to rely on intuition, courage, and laughter to survive. What led up to this arrest, and the struggle to live it down afterwards, lies at the core of this very frank, and sometimes hilarious memoir. The Tall Boy includes close-ups of some of the legendary theatre and film figures Gregg came to know and work with, among them Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Joshua Logan, Colette, Gian Carlo Menotti, Sir John Gielgud, Jean Cocteau, and Scan Connery. Just as colorful are the profiles of less celebra

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Author

Gregg, Jess

Publisher

The Permanent Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781504023986

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14