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The SCARLET PANSY
orignally published in 1933 - "The "pansy craze" of the early 1930s made gay life in Chicago, New York, and other cities more visible and accepted. Lesbian salons attracted sightseers to Towertown (now known as the Magnificent Mile, it was then a bohemian district), while drag entertainers were a feature at South Side clubs. The craze made its way into popular literature, and novels with gay or lesbian themes--like The Well of Loneliness (192, Strange Brother (1931), and A Scarlet Pansy (1932) -- were read by homosexuals and heterosexuals alike."
"There were other young men working at the Bar Star Ranch, some almost as vigorous and attractive as Cowboy. Randall lingered at the bunkhouse door. He forgot his intention to preserve an ideal. To use his own words in telling of what he later described as the greatest night of his life, 'What I did is just nobody;s business.' Suffice it to say, he awoke in the predanw light in a great heap of denin shirts and pants, leather chaps, pounds of assorted sweaty, snoring masculine flesh. Whatever it was, he had done it."

"Written in the wake of WWI, The Scarlet Pansy tells the story of Randall Etrange, whose sexual orientation takes him from the arms of one man to another, from one country to another, from battles of the flesh to the battlefields of Europe. This is an epic novel of forbidden love, guild, struggle, acceptance and of a man who moves from one lover to another in search of something he can not name or define."