Creating a place for ourselves : lesbian, gay, and bisexual community histories edited by Brett Beemyn

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay community--United States--History.

Gay community.

Gay men--United States--Social conditions.

Gay men.

Lesbian community--United States--History.

Lesbian community.

Lesbians--United States--Social conditions.

Lesbians.

Gay people--United States--Social conditions.

Gay people.

Gay liberation movement--United States--History.

Gay liberation movement.

Homosexuality--United States--History.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

[6], 295 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Advance uncorr. proof.

Place of Publication:

New York [N.Y.] : Routledge, [1997]

Contents:

1. Introduction / Brett Beemyn

2. The policed : gay men's strategies of everyday resistance in Times Square / George Chauncey

3. "I could hardly wait to get back to the bar" : lesbian bar culture in Buffalo in the 1930s and 1940s / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis

4. Homos invade S.F.! : San Francisco's history as a wide-open town / Nan Alamilla Boyd

5. The kids of fairytown : gay male culture on Chicago's Near North Side in the 1930s / David K. Johnson

6. Before Paris burned : race, class, and male homosexuality on the Chicago South Side, 1935-1960 / Allen Drexel

7. The "fun gay ladies" : lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1936-1960 / Esther Newton

8. The changing face of lesbian bars in Detroit, 1938-1965 / Roey Thorpe

9. A queer capital : lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences in Washington, D.C. during and after World War II / Brett Beemyn

10. Place and movement in gay American history : a case from the post-World-War II South / John Howard

11. Cars and bars : assembling gay men in postwar Flint, Michigan / Tim Retzloff

12. "Birthplace of the Nation" : imagining lesbian and gay communities in Philadelphia, 1969-1970 / Marc Stein

13. Afterword / Joan Nestle

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

36765546