Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the makings of the gay male world, 1890-1940

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
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• Acknowledgments (page ix)
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• Introduction (page 1)
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• PART I MALE (HOMO)SEXUAL PRACTICES AND IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
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  • Chapter 1 The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle (page 33)
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  • Chapter 2 The Fairy as an Intermediate Sex (page 47)
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  • Chapter 3 Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood (page 65)
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  • Chapter 4 The Forging of Queer Identities and the Emergence of Heterosexuality in Middle‒Class Culture (page 99)
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• PART II THE MAKING OF THE GAY MALE WORLD
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  • Chapter 5 Urban Culture and the Policing of the "City of Bachelors" (page 131)
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  • Chapter 6 Lots of Friends at the YMCA: Rooming Houses, Cafeterias, and Other Gay Social Centers (page 151)
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  • Chapter 7 "Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public": Forging a Gay World in the Streets (page 179)
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  • Chapter 8 The Social World of the Baths (page 207)
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  • Chapter 9 Building Gay Neighborhood Enclaves: The Village and Harlem (page 227)
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• PART III THE POLITICS OF GAY CULTURE
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  • Chapter 10 The Double Life, Camp Culture, and the Making of a Collective Identity (page 271)
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  • Chapter 11 "Pansies on Parade": Prohibition and the Spectacle of the Pansy (page 301)
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  • Chapter 12 The Exclusion of Homosexuality from the Public Sphere in the 1930s (page 331)
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• Epilogue: The Strange Career of the Closet (page 355)
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• Note on Sources (page 365)
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• Notes (page 373)
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• Index (page 459)
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