BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

Gay New York
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York Paperback - 2019

by George Chauncey

Add to wish list

Reader reviews for Gay New York

Write a review for this book

There are no reviews for this book yet. Be the first to write a review!

Your review will be anonymous unless you login or create an account first.

Overall rating
Remember: You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the condition of the specific copy you purchased!

Important Terms and Guidelines

  • Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
  • Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
  • Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
  • This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.
Your review must not include:
  • Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
  • Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
  • Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
  • Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
  • Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
  • Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

The "monumental" (The Washington Post), 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 in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the saloons, speakeasies, and streets where queer men gathered; the intimate parties and immense drag balls where they celebrated; the highly visible residential enclaves they built in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and Times Square; and the complex prewar sexual culture they inhabited, which did not divide men into heterosexuals and homosexuals. It offers new perspectives on the LGBT rights revolution of our time by showing that the oppression the movement attacked in the 1960s was not unchanging, but had intensified in the 1930s as a direct response to the visibility of the prewar gay world.

Awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Organization of American Historians' prize for the best first book in any field of history upon its publication in 1994, Gay New York remains a revelatory account of a long-forgotten world and the most widely taught book in American LGBT history.

Details

  • Title Gay New York
  • Author George Chauncey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books
  • Publication date 2019-04-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781541699212 / 1541699211
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
  • Reading level 1720
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men - New York (State) - New York -, Male homosexuality - New York (State) - New
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.389

About the author

George Chauncey is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and previously taught at Yale and the University of Chicago. He is also the author of Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality.
Back to top↑

More Copies for Sale

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • New
Condition
New
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
13
Seller
Ambis Enterprises LLC
Item price
A$22.45
A$5.66 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!
Add to wish list
Item price
A$22.45
A$5.66 Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by George Chauncey

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
9
Seller
The Saint Bookstore
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$36.38
A$19.00 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Paperback / softback. New.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$36.38
A$19.00 Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used
Edition
Updated
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
1
Seller
Ergodebooks
Item price
A$29.52
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books, 2019-04-09. Updated. paperback. Used: Good. 6.00x1.38x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$29.52
Free Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • New
Condition
New
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
21
Seller
Russell Books Ltd
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$32.60
A$28.35 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor
Add to wish list
Item price
A$32.60
A$28.35 Delivery to USA
GAY NEW YORK
Stock photo: cover may vary

GAY NEW YORK

by CHAUNCEY,G

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
1
Seller
Book Culture
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$32.60
A$8.08 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
pb. New. Brand New. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$32.60
A$8.08 Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Edition
Updated
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
6
Seller
Ergodebooks
Item price
A$36.94
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books, 2019-04-09. Updated. paperback. New. 6.00x1.38x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$36.94
Free Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
1
Seller
Revaluation Books
Item price
A$60.67
A$47.74 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books, 2019. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 496 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$60.67
A$47.74 Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
1
Seller
Bonita
Item price
A$57.50
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$57.50
Free Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
2
Seller
SGS Trading Inc
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$97.72
A$5.53 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books, 2019-04-09. paperback. Good. 6x1x9. Textbook, May Have Highlights, Notes and/or Underlining, BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE, NO CD, Ships with Tracking
Add to wish list
Item price
A$97.72
A$5.53 Delivery to USA
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Stock photo: cover may vary

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

by Chauncey, George

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781541699212 / 1541699211
Quantity available
2
Seller
SGS Trading Inc
Biblio Top Seller
Item price
A$97.75
A$5.53 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Basic Books, 2019-04-09. paperback. New. 6x1x9. New Textbook, Ships with Tracking
Add to wish list
Item price
A$97.75
A$5.53 Delivery to USA
Show all copies
Back to top↑

Please wait a moment while we load the requested page.