Lisa E Davis, provocative author and history sleuth stirs things up on visit to the Bay Area

Lisa E. Davis author of Angie the Spy shocks Berkeley, Ca. bookstore audience with her revelations about the closeted lesbian who brought down the Communist Party USA and took her money and bought large chunks of P-Town when land was cheap. 

This is my good friend, Greenwich village neighbor and spirit sister Lisa E. Davis the author of two of my favorite recent books.

Under the Mink cover

 She wrote UNDER THE MINK the story of gay Greenwich Village in the 40's and 50's with many lesbian bars popping up and those mafia run "straight people" boîte de nuit 's where gender illusion ran supreme. Girls would be boys and boys would be girls.
to titillate the uptown crowd playing naughty. In a Damon Runyon-ish voice, she reveals how life was for some girls in the lavender underground populated with the politicians, madams, and mob bosses!

found in Lesbian Herstory Archives 

I suggest strongly that Todd Haynes or Ira Sachs or Steak House gets their hands on this book and turn it into a time and place premium series a la Broadway Empire A crime story with a sashay sense of humor and a world of hidden wonder.

Under Cover Girl 

Her most recent book UNDERCOVER GIRL, the story of Angie the Spy surfaces the almost erased true story of Angela Calomiris,  a lesbian who worked for J Edgar Hoover and became an FBI informer.  wsingle handily brought down the Communist Party USA. Its shocker revelation and made me think hard about assimilation politics and the ability of homophobes to pretend not to see who is standing in front of them and closeted homosexuals to use their own kind and then walk away when they get what they want the no longer useful agent. How resourcefulness helps to, in the LGBT world , obscure a person's past and seems not to matter when, like Angie in P-town, you are collectively in bed with the lesbian community

Both books are an excellent and yes fun, educational reads. You can buy in your local bookstore (best) or buy online .. or better yet from Lisa at a reading or her in public conversation, Yes she is on facebook..... book her for your college history courses

Watch a recent video of Lisa E Davis reading and in conversation with an audience at the San Francisco Public Library,,, not her knowledge linked with wicked, dry wit.