Stephen Hayes reviewed Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon (Lesbian pulp fiction)
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2 stars
I'm writing this 50 years after I read this book, so I'll simply quote what I wrote in my diary then since I can't remember anything about it, other than what I wrote:
Ma says I am a corrupter -- possibly so. She moans and makes a big issue of that book I bought, Beebo Brinker. It's about a female homosexual who falls in love with two women, and makes a big balls-up before she decides who to live with. It was forced upon the stupid bitch in the end when she shacked up with a film star whose husband kicked her out. I don't blame the husband -- not that his marriage was much of a marriage at all -- there were about three previous divorces. However the author is obviously a lesbian who is making propaganda for gays. She sanctions the selfish attitude taken by the "heroine" Beebo …
I'm writing this 50 years after I read this book, so I'll simply quote what I wrote in my diary then since I can't remember anything about it, other than what I wrote:
Ma says I am a corrupter -- possibly so. She moans and makes a big issue of that book I bought, Beebo Brinker. It's about a female homosexual who falls in love with two women, and makes a big balls-up before she decides who to live with. It was forced upon the stupid bitch in the end when she shacked up with a film star whose husband kicked her out. I don't blame the husband -- not that his marriage was much of a marriage at all -- there were about three previous divorces. However the author is obviously a lesbian who is making propaganda for gays. She sanctions the selfish attitude taken by the "heroine" Beebo Brinker, when she expects to get off with a married woman.
Though I wrote in my diary that I bought it, I don't have it now. Since my mother disapproved of it, she probably threw it out when I was away at university.
