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City of night (Triangle classics)

John Rechy

When John Rechy's explosive first novel, City of Night, was first published in 1963, it became a national bestseller and ushered in a new era of gay fiction. Bold and inventive in his account of the urban underworld of male prostitution, Rechy is equally unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling...

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This novel, featuring gay characters, benefited from the tumbling of obscenity laws at the end of the 1950s.

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The tumbling of obscenity laws would also pave the way for popular novels featuring gay characters like James Baldwin's In Another Country and John Retchie's City of Night.

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This novel, featuring gay characters, benefited from the tumbling of obscenity laws at the end of the 1950s.

"

The tumbling of obscenity laws would also pave the way for popular novels featuring gay characters like James Baldwin's In Another Country and John Retchie's City of Night.

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