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In 1904 publisher Bernard Madfadden denounced “the shoals of painted, perfumed, Kohl-eyed, lisping, mincing youths that at night swarm on Broadway in the Tenderloin section, or haunt the parks and 5th Avenue, ogling every man that passes…” In the following decade another New Yorker declared that “our streets and beaches are overrun by… fairies.” GayContinue reading “Early C20 Fairies”