Scholarly and thoroughly researched, Gay New York charts the development of the gay subculture of New York from the late 19th century to the 1930s and the changing conceptions and stereotypes around same-sex attraction and gender variance - inextricably linked through the early social conception of ...
I didn't think Chauncey completely differentiated between activities (i.e., sex acts), lifestyles, and group consciousness -- but maybe that's because these things were very confused and developed differently for different people. I also wondered how much of the story was really specific to New Yor...
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