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20. Weiss, Encyclopedia of KISS: Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects.
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22. Ibid.
23. Sharp with Simmons and Stanley, Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of KISS, 1972–1975.
24. Criss, Makeup to Breakup: My Life in and out of Kiss.
25. Sharp with Simmons and Stanley, Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of KISS, 1972–1975.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Philip Bump, “In 1927, Donald Trump’s Father Was Arrested After a Klan Riot in Queens,” Washington Post, February 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/ … /in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-Queens.
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30. Sandbrook, Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right.
31. Ibid.
32. Edward Alwood, “How Do You Turn Walter Cronkite into a Friend of Gay Rights? Zap Him,” Washington Post, July 26, 2009, http://www.edwardalwood.com/doc/Cronkite.pdf.
33. Dan Avery, “The Time Gay Activists Interrupted Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News,” Queerty, June 5, 2012, https://www.queerty.com/the-time-gay-activists-interrupted-walter-cronkite-on-the-cbs-evening-news-20120605.
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35. Segal, And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality.
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37. Ibid.
38. Sharon DeLano, “The Torch Singer,” New Yorker, March 3, 2002, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/03/11/the-torch-singer.
39. McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
40. Smith, Just Kids.
41. Ibid.
42. DeLano, “The Torch Singer.”
43. McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
44. Smith, Just Kids.
45. McNeil and McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.