An excerpt from "Men In Pink Spacesuits" by Tom Kane

I was fourteen years old when I came out. That summer--August 1964--I'd looked at the word "homosexual." I thought, "Beautiful and sexy word." I looked it up, and then I'd decided to go down to Greenwich Village where I'd heard they were. I was really curious. My friend joined me for company on the long subway ride south from the Bronx down to Greenwich Village. I got off and looked around a little. I saw a copy and wrote down on a pad, "Where are the fairies?" The cop pointed toward Sheridan Square. I said, "Really, really?" I walked over that way and looked for a long time for homosexuals. That time it was a beatnik neighborhood, but I found none. So I went home.

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