Evening Crowd at Kirmser’sA surprising and vivid remembrance of gay life in the wake of World War II It is often difficult to imagine gay gathering places in the decades before the Stonewall riots of the 1960s, and nearly impossible to think of such communities outside the nations largest cities. Yet such places did exist, and their histories tell amazing stories of survival and the struggle for acceptance and self respect. Kirmsers was such a place. In the 1940s, this bar in