| Title | : | Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (224 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465026214 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1995-05-19 |
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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 Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Chauncey reconstructs New York's pre-WWII gay community, revealing a group that was deeply involved in the city's social and cultural scenes. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
It doesn't begin to cover what you'd expect in a book that costs [$$] dollars. Sometimes the footing is as unsteady as walking the earth after one of those Peruvian earthquakes.
Great job!. It even has a list of companies that supply the hardware that she discusses. This was Lawrence Block's fourth or fifth book, published in 1960 while he was still in college, and it has several things to recommend it.
The protagonist Dan Larkin was an aspiring author, like Block himself, and it was downright eerie how many aspects about Dan's fictional life would end up paralleling the arc of Block's own life over the next 25 years: the progression from obscure pulp writer to eventual best-seller stardom, the women, the binge drinking, and the eventual spiral into alcoholism. The combination of history and human experience was quite genuine and touching for me. Further I found answers about myself and why I do certain things.
This book is a must read and have! Thank you Eil
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