Gay New York
Subtitle: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
By: [by] George Chauncey
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May, 1994
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780465026333
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Homosexuality, Male -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Part I: Male (Homo)sexual Practices and Identities in the Early Twentieth Century; label: 1
title: The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle
pagenum: 33; label: 2
title: The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex
pagenum: 47; label: 3
title: Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood
pagenum: 65; label: 4
title: The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Hereosexuality in Middle-Class Culture
pagenum: 99; title: Part II: The Making of the Gay Male World; label: 5
title: Urban Culture and the Policing of the “City of Bachelors”
pagenum: 131; label: 6
title: Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers
pagenum: 151; label: 7
title: “Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public”: Forging a Gay World in the Streets
pagenum: 179; label: 8
title: The Social World of the Baths
pagenum: 207; label: 9
title: Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem
pagenum: 227; title: Part III: The Politics of Gay Culture; label: 10
title: The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity
pagenum: 271; label: 11
title: “Pansies on Parade”: Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy
pagenum: 301; label: 12
title: The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Spere in the 1930s
pagenum: 331; title: Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet
pagenum: 355; title: Note on Sources
pagenum: 365; title: Notes
pagenum: 373; title: Index
pagenum: 459