MB Civic

“I first took LSD in Winchester, Virginia, thanks to my gay friend George, who was being ‘treated’ for his homosexuality … For the first time in years, my life in that small town was very enjoyable … In Winchester, an assortment of perhaps fifty artists, gays, hillbilly hipsters, academics from a nearby college of music, passing beatniks, and psychedelic enthusiasts had accumulated around town, hanging out at a marvelous old ‘dinner and juke joint’ in the poor section. Winchester’s good Southern burghers couldn’t help but notice all this ‘suspicious happiness,’ as the mayor once called it” – Bageant in AlterNet ..
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