Togetherness. The dress, humor, vocabulary of the lesbian : the cliques -- A girl 'comes out.' Three very different girls become lesbians in three very different cliques -- Why can't a woman be more like a man? The low-life clique -- The circle in the square. The Greenwich Village clique -- The girl in the Brooks Brothers shirt. The uptown clique -- The very gay, come-what-may places. A night in the bars -- Sisters in the sun. Fire Island, the Hamptons, Riis Park -- Liquor is quicker. Why they drink -- The fifty-minute power. Lesbians on the couch -- The men in their lives. Joe and Rodger, Howie and Lou -- My husband says. Married lesbians -- A catered affair. A party uptown : one hundred women and a man -- Hands-around. The Paul Jones ephemeralness of lesbians -- Old soldiers never die. Lesbians in their old age -- Dear Ann Aldrich. The reader writes -- A final word.
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