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Gay New York

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

by George Chauncey

1994 496 pages eng ★ 4.2 (4 ratings)

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…

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