LEADER 04155nam 22006134a 450 001 9910450134103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93874-7 010 $a1-59875-010-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938748 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008573 035 $a(EBL)224018 035 $a(OCoLC)56605715$z(OCoLC)475929607$z(OCoLC)179137747 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000085037 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126198 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085037 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10009469 035 $a(PQKB)11371284 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224018 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30344 035 $a(DE-B1597)519812 035 $a(OCoLC)318420017 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224018 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057098 035 $a(OCoLC)475929607 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008573 100 $a20021007d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWide-open town$b[electronic resource] $ea history of queer San Francisco to 1965 /$fNan Alamilla Boyd 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24474-5 311 $a0-520-20415-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) index. 327 $aIntroduction: San Francisco was a wide-open town --$tHistory/$rJose? Sarria --$tTransgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s --$tOral history/$rReba Hudson --$tLesbian space, lesbian territory: San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954 --$tOral history/$rJoe Baron --$tPolicing queers in the 1940s and 1950s: harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars --$tOral history/$rDel Martin and Phyllis Lyon --$t4. A queer ladder of social mobility : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960 --$tOral history/$rGeorge Mendenhall --$tQueer cooperation and resistance: a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s --$tConclusion : marketing a queer San Francisco --$tAppendix A: map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965 --$tAppendix B: List of interviewees --$tNotes. 330 $aWide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era, Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and, ultimately, offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records, oral histories, tourist literature, and manuscript collections from local and state archives, Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"-a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965. Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life, its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities, and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city, Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history. 606 $aGays$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGays$xHistory. 676 $a305.9/0664/0979461 700 $aBoyd$b Nan Alamilla$f1963-$01018951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450134103321 996 $aWide-open town$92399560 997 $aUNINA