early "gay" cite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Of course, this is all pretty moot for the history of the lexicon as long as
> the 1933 ex. in HDAS holds up. If not, Grant's line loses its likelihood as
> a sexual reference. I do not have access to the book cited in HDAS: _The
> Young and Evil_, by Charles Ford and Parker Tyler (Paris, 1933). I consulted
> it at the NYPL forty years ago.
>

But you can buy a copy from the rare-book catalog I linked to yesterday, for only £2750.
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