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Beebo Brinker
By Ann Bannon
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Ann Bannon was designated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for authoring several landmark novels in the ’50s. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in Beat-era Greenwich Village.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Although the last book published in the Beebo Brinker series by Ann Bannon, this book is a prequel to the other books. Beebo flees to New York City, unable to deny who and what she is. While there, she encounters Jack Mann, who takes her in and befriends her. Beebo gets a girlfriend, Paula, but Beebo is soon transfixed by the beautiful actress, Venus Bogardus.In my opinion, this definitely isn't the best book in the series (I love Odd Girl Out the most), but it's a good story about Beebo's early years. If it had been a stand alone book, I probably would have rated it slightly lower, but I have a lot of love for the series, both historically-speaking and just fun-to-read-speaking.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Classic Lesbian Pulp of Love, Betrayl, and A Girl Too Tall for Her Own GoodThough pulp novels are hard to find these days, Ann Bannon's Beebo Brinker is one of those special rarities which have been reprinted, proclaimed a classic, and studied in universities across the country. Published in 1962, it was only reviewed by The Ladder which called the book a disappointment and sad failure. However, over 40 years later, The Ladder is no where to be seen, and LGBT scholars, queer readers, and pulp lovers across the country are still excited about it.The novel tells the story of Beebo Brinker, who leaves her farm town for Greenwich Village, after finding it too uncomfortable and disgraceful to live in a small town. However, wherein the city at first was a symbol of freedom, she soon comes out, make friends with the local gays, and get invovled with the wicked Mona, the innocent Paula, and the irrestible star Venus Bogardus, all of who show Beebo that the city too can be a prison. It is through these relationships--a central theme in the novel--that Bannon explores the limits and possibilities of gay love and any other kind of love.Beebo Brinker is filled with, as one might expect from a pulp era novel, larger than life characters who are appealing and unique in their own right. While some might say that they are sometime stereotypical, they are nonetheless charming. Who wouldn't be able to resist Jack Mann--man or woman, gay or straight--or even in between? Despite this, however, the novel at time drags as Beebo tries to find her place in the city, in life, and in love. But maybe, that's just the gay male side of me talking, uninterested in any lesbian sex scene however vaguely written.The book however is part of the queer literary cannon, not only because it was an early lesbian novel, but also because it evokes a specific time, a specific place in gay history that is rarely captured so honestly. As she states in her preface, it is an offspring of that era, that time and place. Ann Bannon marked a time in literature when it wasn't wrong to be gay, and maybe it was just right to be who you were, no matter the sexuality. And it is perhaps for this reason alone that this novel should be read by any L, G, B, or T person looking to see their onw place in history.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Man was this boring. It was like sitting in a dentist's office listening to a roomful of women have enless boring conversations. Yak Yak Yak.