| Description |
1 online resource (300 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Policed -- Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistence in Times Square / George Chauncey -- "I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to that Bar" -- Lesbian Bar Culture in Buffalo in the 1930s and 1940s / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis -- "Homos Invade S.F.!" -- San Francisco's History as a Wide-Open Town / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- The Kids of Fairytown -- Gay Male Culture on Chicago's Near North Side in the 1930's / David K. Johnson -- Before Paris Burned -- Race, Class, and Male Homosexuality on the Chicago South Side, 1935-1960 / Allen Drexel -- The "Fun Gay Ladies" -- Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1936-1960 / Esther Newton -- The Changing Face of Lesbian Bars in Detroit, 1938-1965 / Roey Thorpe -- A Queer Capital -- Race, Class, and the Changing Social Lanscape of Washington's Gay Communities, 1940-1955 / Brett Beemyn -- Place and Movement in Gay American History -- A Case from the Post-World War II South / John Howard -- Cars and Bars -- Assembling Gay Men in Postwar Flint, Michigan / Tim Retzloff -- "Birthplace of the Nation" -- Imaginig Lesbian and gay Communities in Philadelphia, 1969-1970 / Marc Stein -- Afterword / Joan Nestle. |
| Summary |
Creating a Place For Ourselves offers an historical look at gay life in the United States before the gay liberation movement. Examining not only the large gay communities of New York, San Francisco, and Fire Island, but also the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Washington, Birmingham, and Flint, the contributors assembled here demonstrate that gay communities are truly everywhere. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gay community -- United States -- History.
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Gay community. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Gay men -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Gay men. |
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Social conditions. |
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Lesbian community -- United States -- History.
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Lesbian community. |
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Lesbians -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Lesbians. |
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Bisexuals -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Bisexuals. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Gay community. |
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Gay men. |
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Lesbian community. |
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Lesbians. |
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Bisexual people. |
| Added Author |
Beemyn, Genny, 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Creating a place for ourselves. New York : Routledge, 1997 0415913896 (DLC) 96046104 (OCoLC)35638247 |
| ISBN |
9781135222413 (electronic book) |
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113522241X (electronic book) |
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1299610889 (e-book) |
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9781299610880 (e-book) |
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0415913896 |
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9780415913898 |
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041591390X |
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9780415913904 |
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