24.10.10

THE GAY COOKBOOK

The Gay Cookbook by Chef Lou Rand Hogan (Sherbourne Press, 1965)
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Lou Hogan (190? - ?) chorine,writer, cook.
Lou was a native of San Francisco. In the 1920s using the drag name of Sonia Pavlijev and street name of Bubbles, he passed as female on the streets. He performed as a chorus girl in productions of The Desert Song and Varsity Drag.
He wrote a novel of gay love in 1932 under the name of Robert Scully. In 1964 he wrote the very first gay detective novel as Lou Rand – which includes glimpses of the San Francisco drag scene at the end of the 1950s.
As Toto le Grand he wrote a memoir spanning the 1920s – 1940s, and a gay cookbook. He was also a columnist for Gourmet Magazine.
Robert Scully. The Scarlet Pansy. New York 1933.

Lou Rand. The Gay Detective. Fresno,1961. Republished as Rough Trade. Los Angeles1964. New York: Paperback Library 1965.
Lou Rand Hogan. The Gay Cookbook. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press 1965. Bell Pub 1965.
Toto le Grand (Lou Rand). The Golden Age of Queens. Bay Area Reporter. 1974. 6-part series. Now at San Francisco GLBT Historical Society.
Nan Alamilla Boyd. Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. University of California Press 2003.
(zagria.blogspot.com)

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