Iowa State University Daily
April 27, 1972
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Gay Liberation Frowns on Stereotyping
 Author Merle Miller, a native of Marshalltown, Iowa, also came out in 1971
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By April, "Al" (Allen Bell) has joined the group bringing along with him the Legends of the Many Homos of the Famous Sleepy Hollow in Iowa, Marshalltown.
According to "Joe" in this article the distinct language of younger gays is on the wane. Of course he couldn't have known it might be resurrected within two years, as who could expect a great reference book like the Queens' Vernacular to soon be out and provide such wonderful inspiration for us verbally creative people?
I had told my father about my "new" identity by this time and he had acted in an appropriate manner according to his station in life with threats of body harm and screams and more threats interspersed with mention of what had gone on in the Navy in World War II, which he'd never mentioned before as I don't think until I was 19 and came out to him I had ever heard him even say the word "sex."
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