streets. Frankie Hucklenbroich's A Crystal Diary is a beautifully sculpted and finely wrought autobiography about a working class stone butch making her way up from the meat-packing ghettos of St. Louis, Missouri, through the haze of Hollywood night-life in the 1960s and ending up in the wild, drug culture of San Francisco in the 1970s. A street-smart con artist who could have fallen out of a William Burroughs novel, Hucklenbroich and her memoirs are a testament to wit, survival, and sheer extraordinary talent.

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