Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Type

Book

Authors

Beemyn ( Brett Beemyn )

ISBN 10

041591390X

ISBN 13

9780415913904

Tags

Non-Fiction, Anthology, Biographies, Biography, Anthologies, Memoir, Memoirs, History, Culture, Activism, Gay Rights, Gay Rights Movement, United States, North American

Description

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, Liz Kennedy, Joan Nestle, Esther Newton, Tim Retzloff, Marc Stein, Roey Thorpe.

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