Art and sex in Greenwich Village
Subtitle: gay literary life after Stonewall
By: Felice Picano.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780786718139
Description: Almost a decade after the Stonewall rebellion lit the political fuse of gay liberation in 1969, its impact on the arts remained minimal. While a handful of gay plays and films and a small number of gay-themed novels were available, few of these reflected the new post-Stonewall out-of-the-closet realities. Then in 1977, three small, all-gay presses formed, which all came together in 1981 to form Gay Presses of New York--not only was it the most successful gay press of its day, but the founders had made their move at the right time and place. GPNy played a vital role in the growth of what is now gay culture, consisting of bookstores, magazines, newspapers, theater companies, and art galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Here is an insider's account of the rise of contemporary gay culture.--From publisher description.