The temperamentals
By: by Jon Marans
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780822224419
Subjects: Drama; Gay liberation movement; Mattachine Society; Gay men
Description: "'Temperamental' was code for 'homosexual' in the early 1950s, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. The Temperamentals tells the story of two men -- the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich -- as they fall in love while building the first gay rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States" -- Publisher's description.