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The swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes of the 1961 lesbian pulp novel go through the shame, thrills, and question of unacceptable love.“She understood why they danced with such homosexual desperation.”A future butch in the Brylcreem period, Lorraine “Lon” Harris fantasizes in regards to a South Pacific island saturated in ladies, where everybody is likely to be free and taking, and she’ll not have to use an eyelet shirt again. Spurned by her senior school English teacher, Lon becomes to your new buddy, the bold, crimson-haired Violet, who attracts Lon in to the lesbian underworld of suburban L A, for the sordid 28-Percent Club, a personal Bar-where individuals with “contaminated passions” stick to one another. One of the swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes, Lon will see himself, below. And here she'll first lay eyes on a dark jazz pianist, amazing, beautiful Mavis and the partner of rich Sassy Gregg, whose large necklaces might aswell be metal knuckles Lon can be involved where.