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Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965

Nan Alamilla Boyd
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page ix)
  • INTRODUCTION San Francisco Was a Wide-Open Town (page 1)
  • ORAL HISTORY (José Sarria, page 20)
  • 1. Transgender and Gay Male Cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s (page 25)
  • ORAL HISTORY (Reba Hudson, page 63)
  • 2. Lesbian Space, Lesbian Territory: San Francisco's North Beach District, 1933-1954 (page 68)
  • ORAL HISTORY (Joe Baron, page 102)
  • 3. Policing Queers in the 1940s and 1950s: Harassment, Prosecution, and the Legal Defense of Gay Bars (page 108)
  • ORAL HISTORY (Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, page 148)
  • 4. "A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility": San Francisco's Homophile Movements, 1953-1960 (page 159)
  • ORAL HISTORY (George Mendenhall, page 194)
  • 5. Queer Cooperation and Resistance: A Gay and Lesbian Movement Comes Together in the 1960s (page 200)
  • CONCLUSION Marketing a Queer San Francisco (page 237)
  • APPENDIX A: Map of North Beach Queer Bars and Restaurants, 1933-1965 (page 243)
  • APPENDIX B: List of Interviewees (page 246)
  • NOTES (page 247)
  • INDEX (page 303)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
WHQ 35.4 (2004): 506-507 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25443063
JHS 13.3 (2004): 373-374 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3704841
OHR 35.2 (2008): 218-220 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20628045
WRB 21.3 (2003): 1-3 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024187
CS 33.6 (2004): 692-693 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3593858
WF 65.3 (2006): 381-384 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474814
JAH 91.1 (2004): 264-266 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3659693
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Published: c2003
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520204157 (hardcover)
  • 9780520244740 (paper)
  • 9780520938748 (ebook)
Subject
  • LGBT/Queer Studies
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