Book Club: The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s

Ricardo J. Brown’s memoir, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s, takes you to an underground gay bar in St. Paul, Minnesota in the 1940s in a rare look at pre-Stonewall queer culture in the Midwest. Brown introduces readers to his life and companions, presenting a very different view of queer culture far from that of the metropolitan world depicted in the current exhibition Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes.