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by George Chauncey

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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 Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed.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 Yorkforever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.

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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.

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  • Title Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
  • Author George Chauncey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date June 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465026210 / 0465026214
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.56 cm)
  • Reading level 1720
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men - New York (State) - New York -, Male homosexuality - New York (State) - New
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94004542
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

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George Chauncey is a professor of history at Columbia University and the Director of the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities. Gay New York, his first book, won the distinguished Turner and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of Why Marriage? Chauncey lives in New York City.
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