Boys Town or Boy's Town or Boys' Town (Mexican brothels near Texas border)

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 12:17 PM 8/29/2007, you wrote:
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>Subject:      Re: Boys Town or Boy's Town or Boys' Town (Mexican brothels near
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>On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Barry Popik wrote:
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> > Anyone remember a "boys town"? Not in OED?
> > ...
> > HDAS has "boys town" and it's "_Navy_, the junior officers'
> > quarters on
> > shipboard"? How do you speak to the editor of HDAS and invite him
> > to Texas?
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> > ...
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> > http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/
> > boys_town_or_boys_town_zona_de_tolerancia_zona_roja_zona_rosa/...
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>then there's the gay usage, easily trackable on the web: the Boystown
>neighborhood of Chicago and the gay village area of L.A., in particular.
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>arnold
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I don't recall where "Brokeback Mountain" was set, but the jilted lover
(can't remember which one he was) went across the border to a "boys' town"
of some sort, though it may not have been named.

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