num_pages: 496
description: The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
  
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. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Called "monumental" (Washington Post), "unassailable" (Boston Globe), "brilliant" (The Nation), and "a first-rate book of history" (The New York Times), Gay New Yorkforever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
language: English
title: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
titlecomplete: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
genres: LGBT, New York, Gay, History, Historical, American History, Gender, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Queer
ratings_count: 3155
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Studies, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Merle Curti Award, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
publisher: Basic Books