George Chauncey is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and previously taught at Yale and the University of Chicago. He is also the author of Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality.
"Gay New York isn't just the definitive history of gays in New York
from 1890 through 1940; it's also a wonderful account of the
metropolitan character of modern gayness itself."--Los Angeles
Times
"A stunning contribution not only to gay history, but to the study
of urban life, class, gender―and heterosexuality."--Kirkus
"Even if you are not a devotee of theory or history, you will want
to read Gay New York for its profusion of anecdotal detail―its
coordinates of a Gay Atlantis, a buried city of Everard Baths,
Harlem drag balls, and Vaseline alley. Chauncey has found evidence
of a gay world whose complexity and cohesion no previous historian
dared to imagine."--Wayne Koestenbaum, Los Angeles Times
"It's the fun, more than anything―the pleasure, the parties, the
high jinks, the sex, and, yes, the love that gay men bear one
another―that shines through so brightly...[a book of] erudition,
discernment, sympathy, and wit."--New York Observer
"A brilliant ethnographic analysis."--The Nation
"A brilliantly researched gift of history...unassailable."--Boston
Globe
"A first-rate book of history...about all urban life, telling us as
much about the heterosexual world as about the homosexual
one."--New York Times
"Chauncey's genius is the way he combines real lives and theory...a
sharp and readable analysis of the way boundaries between 'normal'
and 'abnormal' men bent and blurred in the early parts of the
century."--Out
"Monumental...a vital achievement in redefining and reassessing gay
history."--Washington Post
"One of the most fascinating works of American social history I've
ever read."--Frank Rich, New York Times
"The impact made by this richly textured study is
powerful."--Publisher's Weekly
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