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Brett Beemyn - Creating a Place For Ourselves, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Creating a Place For Ourselves

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Av Brett Beemyn

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Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco and Fire Island, the contributors also consider the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Birmingham and Flint, demonstrating that gay communities are truly everywhere.Contributors: Brett Beemyn, Nan Alamilla Boyd, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis, Allen Drexel, John Howard, David Johnson, Liz Kennedy, Joan Nestle, Esther Newton, Tim Retzloff, Marc Stein, Roey Thorpe.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-04-07
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 950 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 306
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780415913904
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Brett Beemyn teaches at Western Illinois University

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"...essays are fascinatingly researched and engagingly written; the depth of detail here is simply splendid...this collection of essays illuminates how the complicated matrix of gender, race, class (and to some extent mobility, both social and physical) has come into play in the formation of gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities." -- The Lavender Salon Reader"This rich and varied collection will allow teachers of social history and of the twentieth-century United States to incorporate material on sexual identity more easily into their courses." -- John D'Emilio, The Journal ofAmerican History"The essays in Creating a Place for Ourselves provide important and inspirational building blocks in the ever-expanding field of lesbian, gay, and bisexual community studies." -- Lesbian Review of Books

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