Book: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, And The Making Of The Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, Chauncey's brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet. "Chauncey's genius here is the way he combines real lives and theory".--Out. Illustrations.
"Gay New York" brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.
Details of Book: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, And The Making Of The Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Book: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, And The Making Of The Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Author: George Chauncey
ISBN: 0465026214
ISBN-13: 9780465026210
, 978-0465026210
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1995/05/18
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Number of Pages: 496
Language: English