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Stuck Rubber Baby is a 1995 graphic novel by Howard Cruse set in the early 1960s in the fictional Southern town of Clayfield. The story revolves around Toland Polk, a young white man who drifts into the integrationist movement in Clayfield, becoming involved with a young woman named Ginger while simultaneously struggling with his own homosexuality.A winner of the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album. |
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Gay Moment |
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Gay Moment: Toland has so many of these, you'd think the others would start not believing him... |
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Bury Your Gays |
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Bury Your Gays: Poor, poor Sammy. There's also a mention early on of a bank president murdered by some young men who had claimed he was giving them funny looks, and who were subsequently let off scot free. |
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TheSixties |
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The '60s: The setting, apart from a frame story at the beginning and end. |
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Bittersweet Ending |
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Bittersweet Ending: Sammy is lynched, Toland loses touch with his friends and after that one meeting, never sees his and Ginger's daughter again. But he's at peace with himself and has embraced his homosexuality, living in New York City with a boyfriend, and he does have some fond memories of the past. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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Driven to Suicide: The police's alternate explanation for Sammy's death. |
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Coming-Out Story |
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Coming-Out Story: Most of Toland's story. |
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Camp Gay |
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Camp Gay: Esmeraldus, Sammy, and Bernard. |
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But We Used a Condom! |
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But We Used a Condom!: Averted with Toland and Ginger. It's even the inspiration for the title. |
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Straight Gay |
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Straight Gay: Les and Toland himself. |
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Drag Queen |
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Drag Queen: Esmeraldus. |
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Gaydar |
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Gaydar: Most people seem to be able to pick up on Toland's gayness when they first meet, then believe him when he claims to be straight. |
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Everyone Has Standards |
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Everyone Has Standards: Toland's parents believe that white people were smarter and overall better than Black people, but they forbade him from ever saying the n-word. |
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Too Dumb to Live |
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Too Dumb to Live: Sammy, extremely drunk and somewhat depressed at being turned down by Toland, gets Toland to drive him over to the headquarters of the Dixie Patriot, the local racist newspaper which had featured him on the front page describing him as a "Nigger Loving Queer," so he can ask for copies of the picture. It doesn't go well... |
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Bald of Authority |
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Bald of Authority: Reverend Harland Pepper. |
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Hello, Sailor! |
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Hello, Sailor!: When we first see him, Sammy is in his Navy uniform. |
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Jerkass |
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Jerkass: Orley, Sutton Chopper, and pretty much every police officer who appears. |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: how most of the white citizens of Clayfield view the staff of the blatantly racist newspaper the Dixie Patriot. |
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