SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures : Masked Voices : Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loftin, Craig M., Author.

Series:

SUNY series in queer politics and cultures Masked voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--United States.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--United States.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.

Contents:

Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America

Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: ONE Magazine and Its Readers

Chapter 2: Newsstand Encounters: ONE Magazine's Volunteer Agents and Public Visibility

Chapter 3: Imagining a Gay World: The American Homophile Movement in Global Perspective

Chapter 4: ONE Magazine Letter Archetypes

Chapter 5: "Branded Like a Horse": Homosexuality, the Military, and Work

Chapter 6: Classroom Anxieties: Educators and Homosexuality

Chapter 7: Family Anxieties: Parent and Family Responses to Homosexual Disclosures

Chpater 8: Homosexuals and Marriage under the Shadow of McCarthy

Chapter 9: "I shall always cherish Sunday"

Chapter 10: Unacceptable Mannerisms: Gender, Sexuality, and Swish in Postwar America

Conclusion

Appendix: Categories of ONE Correspondence

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781438440163

1438440162

OCLC:

785434799