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Even after the first years following Stonewall, Albany&#;s homosexual subculture was still distinctly closeted. Chapters of Queer Liberation Front (GLF), Lgbtq+ Activists Alliance (GAA), and Gay Maoists had started up on campus my freshman year, where a few men were out, but most, like I, were closeted

When I first walked into G.J.’s Gallery, a neighborhood bar in Albany, NY, I start myself in the bohemian underworld I had longed for. Dark, smoky, Rolling Stones on the jukebox, a long bar stretched from the front door halfway through the room—opposite were booths, and the smell of Mary Jane mixed with cigarette smoke lingered above.

I became familiar with the bar’s clientele: writers and painters from the neighborhood, some drug pushers, some gay men, and occasional college students like me, who could frequent bars when Recent York state&#;s legal drinking age was eighteen. The crowd was almost exclusively men, some smoking joints in the bathroom, as dealers peddled acid, speed, Quaaludes, and grass.

I usually went with two friends, Doug and Ritchie; we three were on the editorial board of t

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