Strange Brother - Gay Modern Classics Author:Blair Niles While enjoying the nightlife of Harlem in the 1920's, June Westbrook, a recent divorcée and newspaper columnist, befriends Mark Thornton, a handsome young man with a secret. As they are leaving one of the clubs, they witness a young, effeminate man named Nelly gets arrested. June pleads with Mark to find out what happened to him. — En ... more »route to the courthouse the next day, Mark reads a copy of the Penal Code and learns of the horrible laws society has created against men like Nelly - and men like himself. He attends Nelly's trial at which the young man is sentenced to one year in prison for making advances towards another man and for dressing like a woman. Unnerved by what he has seen and read, he decides to tell June everything, believing she is the one person who can understand him.« less