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Queer Street – The Rise and Fall of an American Culture 1947–1985: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: Excursions in the Mind of the Life - Hardcover
Synopsis
Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York in the golden age before McCarthyism, "Queer Street" tells the explosive story of gay culture in the latter half of the 20th century. Coming out himself in the "buttoned-up/button-down" 1950s, McCourt positions his own homosexual experience against the whirlwind history of the era, summoning a pageant of characters that includes Harry Hay, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote amongst many others. Mixing the theories of Nietzsche and Sontag with the history of the Greenwich Village, McCourt highlights the major events fo the period: the landmark eruption at the Stonewall Inn; the AIDS crisis that brought an end to the bathhouse culture; the ascendancy of the Christian right; and finally the social acceptance of gays that paradoxically marked the demise of queer culture.
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Review
An astonishing book, at once hilarious and touching. -- J. D. McClatchy
An extravagant edifice....The gifts of this magnificent writer are everywhere apparent. -- Harold Bloom
About the Author
James McCourt is the author of three novels and two collections of short stories. He has contributed to the Yale Review the New Yorker and the Paris Review.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0393050513
- ISBN 13 9780393050516
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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