Gay New York
Subtitle: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780465026210
First sentence: AT THE END OF THE 1890s, COLUMBIA HALL (BETTER KNOWN AS PARESIS Hall), on the Bowery at Fifth Street, was by all accounts, the "principal resort in New York for degenerates" and well known as much to the public.