num_pages: 464
description: Award-winning historian Lillian Faderman teams with journalist Stuart Timmons to write the first history of gay life in America's ultimate frontier town: Los AngelesThe exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world.Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered "two spirits" to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the explosion of gay life during World War II to the underground radicalism sparked by the 1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America. Combining broad historical scope with deftly wrought stories of real people, from the Hollywood sound stage to the barrio, Gay L.A. is American social history at its best.
language: English
title: Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians
titlecomplete: Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians
genres: LGBT, Historical, Gay, History, Lesbian, American History, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Queer, Queer Studies
ratings_count: 234
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Arts & Culture
publisher: Basic Books