num_pages: 212
description: A Harvard student expelled for cross-dressing in the early 1600s, 17th-century citizens fined for same-sex cohabitation, touring female impersonators of the nineteenth century, early 20th-century women who passed as men and married other women . . .Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict the last three centuries of gay and lesbian life in Boston - the American city with the longest recognized history of gay and lesbian life - and is the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.
language: English
title: Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
titlecomplete: Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland
genres: LGBT, Nonfiction, History, Queer
ratings_count: 50
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Gay/Lesbian
publisher: Beacon Press