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For hundreds of thousands of gay Americans, New York City is the literal gay metropolis: the place where they have learned how to live openly, honestly, and without shame. But the figurative gay metropolis is much larger: it encompasses every place on every continent where gay people have found the courage and the dignity to be free.
The Gay Metropolis is a compelling social and political history of modern gay life in America. Charles Kaiser is the first author to devote equal attention to the personal and the political, alternating between the intimate stories of people as famous as Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal and as little known as Sandy Kern, a young Brooklyn woman who first heard the word lesbian when a neighbor spied her with an arm around her girlfriend at the end of a wartime blackout.
Though it focuses on New York City, The Gay Metropolis includes stops in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Paris, Egypt, and Israel to capture wry, important, or novel tales. And it covers the major social, political, and cultural events that have affected the way gay people view themselves and how they have been treated by the larger society.
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
Jun 04, 2019, Grove Press
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Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
2007, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
June 10, 2007, Grove Press
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The gay metropolis 1940-1996
1999, Phoenix, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The gay metropolis 1940-1996
1998, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The gay metropolis, 1940-1996
1998, Harcourt Brace
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-386) and index.
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A social and political history of modern gay life focuses on New York City, describing the gay rights movement and prominent gay figures
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