Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
by: George Chauncey
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Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.
Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.
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- Informative book, but very SLOW reading
This book is an informative resource for gay history, or in the case of how this book presents it, gay discrimination and punishments.The book does not go into much detail about happy or positive things, and maybe that is how it was like in the past, but I can't believe that there were no positive relationships, activities, or events that went on despite the legal issues going on at the time.The book is slow reading and get's quite boring in some parts.Its a okay to good book, but its a lot ... Read More
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- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World
This book provides excellent resource material on gay culture from the late 1800s until the 1940s.If you've ever been curious about gay life in New York City way back when, this is the book for you.It's filled with lots of historical info.I found the information about Chauncey covers in Chapter 9 book "Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves:the Village and Harlem," useful as reference points when I wrote one of my lesbian romance novels set in the 1920s in Harlem.
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- An engaging and informative book
George Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality.
Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives prior to Stonewall), invisibility (the gay world was difficult for isolated men to find) and internalization (gay men were self-loathing and universally accepted their denigration by the dominant ... Read More
Rating: - History at its Finest
George Chauncey gave himself an incredibly daunting task when he set out to reconstruct the sexual and gender landscape that Gay Male New Yorkers inhabited from the fin de sielce until the beginning of World War II.In order meet this challenge, and make sense of the awe inspiring amount of research he was able to amass, Chauncey finds it necessary to set himself up with a mega question--what did it mean to be a gay man in New York during the period in question?--with a series of much smaller ... Read More
Rating: - A treasure chest of forgotten lore
This book was preceded in my conciousness by high critical praise and so I approached it with great expectations. And in great part it met these expectations.
More than anything else, this is a work of love, being the excavation of forgotten facts in the history of gay life as it was lived by decades of gay men, experiences now mostly forgotten or scattered in obscure and fading documents. It is an extraordinary work of social archeology, resurrecting a world I never knew exisited. And Chauncey ... Read More
- Informative book, but very SLOW readingThis book is an informative resource for gay history, or in the case of how this book presents it, gay discrimination and punishments.The book does not go into much detail about happy or positive things, and maybe that is how it was like in the past, but I can't believe that there were no positive relationships, activities, or events that went on despite the legal issues going on at the time.The book is slow reading and get's quite boring in some parts.Its a okay to good book, but its a lot ... Read More
- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World This book provides excellent resource material on gay culture from the late 1800s until the 1940s.If you've ever been curious about gay life in New York City way back when, this is the book for you.It's filled with lots of historical info.I found the information about Chauncey covers in Chapter 9 book "Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves:the Village and Harlem," useful as reference points when I wrote one of my lesbian romance novels set in the 1920s in Harlem.
- An engaging and informative bookGeorge Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality.
Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives prior to Stonewall), invisibility (the gay world was difficult for isolated men to find) and internalization (gay men were self-loathing and universally accepted their denigration by the dominant ... Read More
- History at its FinestGeorge Chauncey gave himself an incredibly daunting task when he set out to reconstruct the sexual and gender landscape that Gay Male New Yorkers inhabited from the fin de sielce until the beginning of World War II.In order meet this challenge, and make sense of the awe inspiring amount of research he was able to amass, Chauncey finds it necessary to set himself up with a mega question--what did it mean to be a gay man in New York during the period in question?--with a series of much smaller ... Read More
- A treasure chest of forgotten loreThis book was preceded in my conciousness by high critical praise and so I approached it with great expectations. And in great part it met these expectations.
More than anything else, this is a work of love, being the excavation of forgotten facts in the history of gay life as it was lived by decades of gay men, experiences now mostly forgotten or scattered in obscure and fading documents. It is an extraordinary work of social archeology, resurrecting a world I never knew exisited. And Chauncey ... Read More
