Title: Gay New York
Subtitle: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
First published: 1994
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 Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed.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 York* forever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.
Subjects: City dwellers, Gay men, History, Homoseksuelen, Homosexuality, Male Homosexuality, Stadscultuur, Gay history, New York City, LGBT history, Gay community, Homosexuality, history, LGBTQ nonfiction, LGBTQ history, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Homosexuels masculins, Histoire, Homosexualité masculine, LGBTQ spaces and places
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century, 1890-1940
LC classification: HQ76.2.U52 N53 1994