Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady Juvenile Fiction " --Paul Griffin

" --Paul Griffin

His work highlights the unique mental health challenges facing queer and trans young adults

Solomon has retreated further and further into a world he seems to have created in his own mind

and smart as anyone else

What Is the Grass is a conversation across time and space

Dugan's Bistro and the Legend of the Bearded Lady Juvenile Fiction " --Paul GriffinDugan's Bistro was the hottest gay disco in Chicago. From 1973 1982, the sign above the door and on the club's matchbooks read: "Dugan's Bistro, the Home of the Bearded Lady." A Chicago nightlife phenomenon, the Bearded Lady was a unique celebrity who, for over a decade, was covered regularly in gay newspapers and magazines, gossip columns of the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times, and several national and international publications. Despite his fame, much