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* ContemptibleCover: Done in the 50s with images that look very tame compared to today. The recent reprints take it UpToEleven with incredibly over-the-top and sleazy images in order to replicate the effect.
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* PutOnABus / TheBusCameBack: Beth is absent in the books between ''Odd Girl Out'' and ''Journey to a Woman''.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Unbuilt trope. It's rather notable just how realistically complex the characters are. The first book has Laura go through a rather arduous process of coming out, first thinking IfItsYouItsOkay before moving on to a PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush phase, finally ending with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (without sacrificing her own happiness in the process).
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* SuddenlySexuality: Averted (the trope didn't really exist at this point).Unbuilt trope. It's rather notable just how realistically complex the characters are. The first book has Laura go through a rather arduous process of coming out, first thinking IfItsYouItsOkay before moving on to a PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush phase, finally ending with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (without sacrificing her own happiness in the process).
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hair, or with the [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow blue-furred plush toy / time-demon killer]].
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* TheAlcoholic: Beebo and Jack. An unfortunate, and [[TruthInTelevision unfortunately realistic,]] side effect of all that {{Gayngst}}.
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In the fifties and sixties a thriving genre of trashy, sensationalistic pulp novels purporting to expose the sordid twilight world of lesbians sprang up. While most these dime store novels were written by and for straight men and traded mostly in ugly stereotypes about lesbians (and their eventual defeat and/or rescue by a male hero), a rare few were actually written by lesbian authors who attempted to treat their heroines with respect--and a healthy splash of camp and sensationalism, too.
Among the most famous of these were the five novels that make up ''The Beebo Brinker Chronicles'', by Ann Bannon. The books follow the [[ComingOutStory coming out]] and search for love and happiness by pretty, feminine, [[BreakTheCutie very damaged]] Laura, and her {{Bifauxnen}} lover Beebo in 1950's Greenwich Village. Melodrama, angst, and sex ensue.
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* CastFullOfGay: The only straight people are there to be [[AllLoveIsUnrequited pined over]] [[IncompatibleOrientation unrequitedly]].
* ContemptibleCover: Done in the 50s with images that look very tame compared to today. The recent reprints take it UpToEleven with incredibly over-the-top and sleazy images in order to replicate the effect.
* FreudianExcuse: Laura's parents were divorced. [[ValuesDissonance Not only did lesbianism require a Freudian Excuse in The Fifties, this counted as one.]] Although in the second book, Laura says her father hates her because her family crashed their car into a lake and only Laura survived. If divorce didn't make her gay, this sure would.
* {{Gayngst}}: And plenty of it. It ''was'' the 1950's.
* {{Gayborhood}}: Greenwich Village, a real life example of this trope at the time.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: In the first book, ''Odd Girl Out,'' this was Beth's stance toward Laura before she went outright hetero.
* TheMasochismTango: Laura and Beebo. Oh dear God.
* TheAlcoholic: Beebo and Jack. An unfortunate, and [[TruthInTelevision unfortunately realistic,]] side effect of all that {{Gayngst}}.
* SuddenlySexuality: Averted (the trope didn't really exist at this point). It's rather notable just how realistically complex the characters are. The first book has Laura go through a rather arduous process of coming out, first thinking IfItsYouItsOkay before moving on to a PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush phase, finally ending with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (without sacrificing her own happiness in the process).
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In the fifties and sixties a thriving genre of trashy, sensationalistic pulp novels purporting to expose the sordid twilight world of lesbians sprang up. While most these dime store novels were written by and for straight men and traded mostly in ugly stereotypes about lesbians (and their eventual defeat and/or rescue by a male hero), a rare few were actually written by lesbian authors who attempted to treat their heroines with respect--and a healthy splash of camp and sensationalism, too.
Among the most famous of these were the five novels that make up ''The Beebo Brinker Chronicles'', by Ann Bannon. The books follow the [[ComingOutStory coming out]] and search for love and happiness by pretty, feminine, [[BreakTheCutie very damaged]] Laura, and her {{Bifauxnen}} lover Beebo in 1950's Greenwich Village. Melodrama, angst, and sex ensue.
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'''Tropes used:'''
* CastFullOfGay: The only straight people are there to be [[AllLoveIsUnrequited pined over]] [[IncompatibleOrientation unrequitedly]].
* ContemptibleCover: Done in the 50s with images that look very tame compared to today. The recent reprints take it UpToEleven with incredibly over-the-top and sleazy images in order to replicate the effect.
* FreudianExcuse: Laura's parents were divorced. [[ValuesDissonance Not only did lesbianism require a Freudian Excuse in The Fifties, this counted as one.]] Although in the second book, Laura says her father hates her because her family crashed their car into a lake and only Laura survived. If divorce didn't make her gay, this sure would.
* {{Gayngst}}: And plenty of it. It ''was'' the 1950's.
* {{Gayborhood}}: Greenwich Village, a real life example of this trope at the time.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: In the first book, ''Odd Girl Out,'' this was Beth's stance toward Laura before she went outright hetero.
* TheMasochismTango: Laura and Beebo. Oh dear God.
* TheAlcoholic: Beebo and Jack. An unfortunate, and [[TruthInTelevision unfortunately realistic,]] side effect of all that {{Gayngst}}.
* SuddenlySexuality: Averted (the trope didn't really exist at this point). It's rather notable just how realistically complex the characters are. The first book has Laura go through a rather arduous process of coming out, first thinking IfItsYouItsOkay before moving on to a PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush phase, finally ending with IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy (without sacrificing her own happiness in the process).
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