Brett Beemyn (ed.)

Creating a Place For Ourselves

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories
Herausgeber: Beemyn, Brett

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415913904
• ISBN-10: 041591390X
• Artikelnr.: 21215080

Autorenporträt

Brett Beemyn teaches at Western Illinois University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Brett Beemyn
Chapter 1 1. The Policed, George Chauncey
Chapter 2 "I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to that Bar", Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis
Chapter 3 "Homos Invade S.F.!", Nan Alamilla Boyd
Chapter 4 The Kids of Fairytown, David K. Johnson
Chapter 5 Before Paris Burned, Allen Drexel
Chapter 6 The "Fun Gay Ladies", Esther Newton
Chapter 7 The Changing Face of Lesbian Bars in Detroit 1938-1965, Roey Thorpe
Chapter 8 A Queer Capital, Brett Beemyn
Chapter 9 Place and Movement in Gay American History, John Howard
Chapter 10 Cars and Bars, Tim Retzloff
Chapter 11 "Birthplace of the Nation", Marc Stein
Chapter 12 Afterword, Joan Nestle
contrib Notes on Contributors
Index