Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories - Softcover

 
9780415913904: Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Synopsis

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco and Fire Island, the contributors also consider the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Birmingham and Flint, demonstrating that gay communities are truly everywhere.

Contributors: Brett Beemyn, Nan Alamilla Boyd, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis, Allen Drexel, John Howard, David Johnson, Liz Kennedy, Joan Nestle, Esther Newton, Tim Retzloff, Marc Stein, Roey Thorpe.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Brett Beemyn teaches at Western Illinois University

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780415913898: Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0415913896 ISBN 13:  9780415913898
Publisher: Routledge, 1997
Hardcover