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Rushes

by John Rechy · 1981

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Set in a leather and western bar, one night in New York City, the post-stonewall pre-AIDS gay sexual underworld is revealed in this calssic in gay fiction.

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Setting
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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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