The Crooked Man

"The Crooked Man" is a (1955) short story by Charles Beaumont.

Summary

The story "presented a dystopian future scenario wherein heterosexuality is stigmatized in the same way that homosexuality then was, and depicts heterosexuals living as furtively as pre-Stonewall gays and lesbians. In the story, a man meets the woman he loves in a gay orgy bar. They try to make love in a curtained booth (she dressed in male drag), and are caught."

Publications

• 1955, Playboy