5/15/2023 0 Comments Rubyfruit jungle bookWhen I asked her whether she knew she was writing a revolutionary book, she answered concisely: "No." Brown doesn't even see Rubyfruit Jungle as necessarily being a force for today's LGBTQ culture - she shrugged off the acronym, telling me that it's a group of letters used to: bundle people together and manipulate them as bloc voters or it is used for commercial appeal. Rita Mae Brown doesn't quite see her book the way I - and so many members of the gay community - do. When Brown's story hit, there was by no means wide acceptance of people identifying as anything other than cis and straight, and her tale was remarkable. It's being reissued in June with a new cover to the delight of many women for whom the book was the coming out story we identified with - before Alison Bechdel or Willow and Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 1973, a remarkable and revolutionary book came out: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown.
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