Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

Author:   Brett Beemyn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780415913904


Pages:   306
Publication Date:   07 April 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays which takes an historical look at 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.

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Author:   Brett Beemyn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9780415913904


ISBN 10:   041591390
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   07 April 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Brett Beemyn; Chapter 1 1. The Policed, George Chauncey; Chapter 2 “I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to that Bar”, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis; Chapter 3 “Homos Invade S.F.!”, Nan Alamilla Boyd; Chapter 4 The Kids of Fairytown, David K. Johnson; Chapter 5 Before Paris Burned, Allen Drexel; Chapter 6 The “Fun Gay Ladies”, Esther Newton; Chapter 7 The Changing Face of Lesbian Bars in Detroit 1938–1965, Roey Thorpe; Chapter 8 A Queer Capital, Brett Beemyn; Chapter 9 Place and Movement in Gay American History, John Howard; Chapter 10 Cars and Bars, Tim Retzloff; Chapter 11 “Birthplace of the Nation”, Marc Stein; Chapter 12 Afterword, Joan Nestle; contrib Notes on Contributors; Index;

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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 of American History, 3/98 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


... 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. <br>- The Lavender Salon Reader <br> 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. <br>-John D'Emilio, The Journal of American History, 3/98 <br> 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. <br>- Lesbian Review of Books <br>


... 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 of American History, 3/98 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


...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 of American 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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Brett Beemyn teaches at Western Illinois University

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