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Odd Girl Out Odd Girl Out is the story of Ann Weldy - aka Ann Bannon - a gracious, college-educated Philadelphia housewife and mother who led a secret life writing lesbian pulp fiction. Unknown to her family, Ann strains against her sense of confinement, feeling trapped by an unequal marriage, the social strictures of the times, and the demands of motherhood - and yearns for an expanded, more worldly existence in which she can live as her authentic self. She experiences the mystifying, electrifying world of pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, and encounters the brave and complicated women striving to live gay lives in a hostile dangerous world. Ann finds release in writing her books where she plays out her repressed sexuality by stepping into her character Beth, her emotional doppelganger. Ann Bannon's colorful pulp fiction filled the racks of drugstore and trains station new stands in the 1950's and early 1960's when gay men and women lived in the shadows. |