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In Men without Maps, John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps—provided by nearly every engine of social and popular culture—gay men mostly lacked such guides in the years before parades, organizations, and publications for queer persons. Surveying the years from shortly before the war up to the gay rights movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ibson considers male couples, who balanced domestic contentment with exterior repression, as well as single men, whose solitary lives illuminate unexplored aspects of the queer experience. Men without Maps shows how, in spite of the obstacles they faced, midcentury gay men found ways to assemble their lives and senses of self at a time of limited acceptance.
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Gay men, History, Gay couples, LGBTQ sociology, LGBTQ historyPlaces
San Francisco, Texas, Washington D.C.Times
mid 20th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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"Of the Bible's many problematic proclamations, few are as wrongheaded as the insistence in Ecclesiastes 1:9 that “what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”"
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