Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

James Kirchick

816 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ informative slow-paced

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Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City.For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay de...

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