A scant six paragraphs in Chauncey's definitive history book leapt out at Travis.

And I'm gonna read it to you now.

"Fags were confined to the prison's south annex, the most isolated and secure section of the prison.

They ate separately, saw movies separately, and worked in separate work gangs, which were assigned women's work in the prison laundry and in the warden's home.

Within the south annex, which many prisoners called the fag annex, men were informally allowed to wear long hair, wigs, makeshift dresses, and homemade rouge and lipstick.

Guards and other prisoners alike usually referred to them by their camp names: Greta Garbo, Lillian Russell, Broadway Rose.

And at Christmas, the south annex inmates staged a bawdy show called The Fag Follies for a select audience of guards and well-connected prisoners." [jolly music] And I paused on that page and a half, and I was like, "That's really fascinating.

Here's Gorgeous Nothing's playwright, Travis Lee Russ, reading one of the accounts of the raid from the Daily News, published on January 25th, 1934.