3/12/2024 0 Comments Stealth attraction secrets reviewsBut it’s also a city that, from FDR to Bill Clinton-the period covered by James Kirchick’s fascinating new book, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington-was, as Kirchick puts it, “haunted” by “the specter of homosexuality.” Same-sex attraction, linked during World War II with Nazism and during the Cold War with Communism, could end a political career faster than any crime or heterodoxy. Washington has long been a disproportionately gay city-a mecca for clever, ambitious young men who want to escape their hometowns’ prying eyes, who yearn for the company of other clever, ambitious young men, and who, having no families to support, can afford to work long hours as political staffers for modest pay.
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