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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786991503321

Titolo

Creating a place for ourselves : lesbian, gay, and bisexual community histories / / edited by Brett Beemyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

0-203-69911-4

1-135-22241-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeemynGenny <1966->

Disciplina

305.9/0664

Soggetti

Gay community - United States - History

Gay men - United States - Social conditions

Lesbian community - United States - History

Lesbians - United States - Social conditions

Bisexual people - United States - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The policed : gay men's strategies of everyday resistance in Times Square / George Chauncey -- 2. "I could hardly wait to get back to that bar" : lesbian bar culture in Buffalo in the 1930s and 1940s / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis -- 3. "Homos invade S.F.!" : San Francisco's history as a wide-open town / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- 4. The kids of fairytown : gay male culture on Chicago's near north side in the 1930s / David K. Johnson -- 5. Before Paris burned : race, class, and male homosexuality on the Chicago south side, 1935-1960 / Allen Drexel -- 6. The "fun gay ladies" : lesbians in Cherry Glove, 1936-1960 / Esther Newton -- 7. The changing face of lesbian bars in Detroit, 1938-1965 / Roey Thorpe -- 8. A queer capital : race, class, gender, and the changing social landscape of Washington's gay communities, 1940-1955 / Brett Beemyn -- 9. Place and movement in gay American history : a case from the post-World War II south / John Howard -- 10. Cars and bars : assembling gay men in postwar Flint, Michigan / Tim Retzloff -- 11. "Birthplace of the nation" : imagining lesbian and gay communities in Philadelphia, 1969-1970 / Marc Stein -- 12. Afterword / Joan Nestle.



Sommario/riassunto

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco and Fire Island, the contributors also consider the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Birmingham and Flint, demonstrating that gay communities are truly everywhere.  Contributors: Brett Beemyn, Nan Alamilla Boyd, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis, Allen Drexel, John Howard, David Johnson, L