
America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know
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Gay Artists and Cross Dressing in Hollywood
In the 19 twenties, you also have a great toleranceof of homosexuality in hollywood. This was part of the reason for the back lash against it in the 19 thirties. So agame people living openly with partners of the same sex and cross dressing. And then also correspondence is where you really see it. There are various diaries as well, where people were more and more willing to record what they were. Sometimes it's still coded, sometimes it's still in euphemism, but it's code that's very easy to decipher,. But sometimes it wasn't coted.
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