Meaker initiated Bannon into the Village gay culture, guiding her through the butch/femme dynamic, and the language and dress used by gay women in the 1950’s. Meaker took Bannon on a tour of Greenwich Village, showing her the lesbian bars and taking her to the Bagatelle, the most popular lesbian bar in the Village. Intrigued by Bannon’s letter and her manuscript, Meaker invited her to Greenwich Village.Īfter Bannon finally convinced her reluctant husband to let her go to New York, Bannon gave her manuscript to Dick Carroll, the editor of Gold Medal Books, which was hungry to publish more lesbian pulp novels. After she finished writing her novel, she wrote Vin Packer, whose real name is Marijane Meaker, asking her for advice. She went to the rack of pulp novels and pulled out a stack of books, some detective novels, and the forbidden fruit, a novel called Spring Fire by Vin Packer, which was a college romance between two women.īannon devoured Spring Fire and realized she might be able to write an erotic pulp novel of her own. In the mid-1950’s, a Philadelphia housewife named Ann Bannon walked nervously into a local pharmacy.
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