The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay 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 Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Called and “monumental and ” (Washington Post), and “unassailable and ” (Boston Globe), and “brilliant and ” (The Nation), and and “a first-rate book of history and ” (The New York Times), Gay New Yorkforever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.

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