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

Chauncey, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465026214 ISBN 13: 9780465026210

Publisher: Basic Books, 1995

Synopsis

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 Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.

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Product Description:

Title: Gay New York( Gender Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: GeorgeChauncey <>Publisher: BasicBooks(AZ)

Review:

"Monumental...a vital achievement in redefining and reassessing gay history."--Washington Post

"One of the most fascinating works of American social history I've ever read."--Frank Rich, New York Times

"A first-rate book of history...about all urban life, telling us as much about the heterosexual world as about the homosexual one."--New York Times

"A stunning contribution not only to gay history, but to the study of urban life, class, gender--and heterosexuality."--Kirkus

"Gay New York isn't just the definitive history of gays in New York from 1890 through 1940; it's also a wonderful account of the metropolitan character of modern gayness itself."--L.A. Times

"A brilliantly researched gift of history...unassailable."--Boston Globe

"A brilliant ethnographic analysis."--The Nation

"The impact made by this richly textured study is powerful."--Publisher's Weekly

"It's the fun, more than anything--the pleasure, the parties, the high jinks, the sex, and, yes, the love that gay men bear one another--that shines through so brightly...[a book of] erudition, discernment, sympathy, and wit."--New York Observer

"Chauncey's genius is the way he combines real lives and theory...a sharp and readable analysis of the way boundaries between 'normal' and 'abnormal' men bent and blurred in the early parts of the century."--Out

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0465026214
• ISBN 13: 9780465026210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496