George Chauncey: 2 books
Why Marriage
The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history. George Chauncey offers an electrifying...
Gay New York
Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries,...