Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey

503 pages first pub 1994 (view editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century  Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were i...

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