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

Name: Gay New York Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
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ISBN: 9780465026210

ISBN-10: 0465026214

ISBN-13: 9780465026210

Edition: N/A

Authors: George Chauncey

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List price: $24.99
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/19/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Male (Homo)Sexual Practices and Identities in the Early Twentieth Century



The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle



The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex



Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood



The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Heterosexuality in Middle-Class Culture



The Making of the Gay Male World



Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors"



Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers



"Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public": Forging a Gay World in the Streets



The Social World of the Baths



Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem



The Politics of Gay Culture



The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity



"Pansies on Parade": Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy



The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1930s


Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet


Note on Sources


Notes


Index