Gay New York - Couverture rigide

Chauncey, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465026338 ISBN 13 : 9780465026333

Editeur : Basic Books, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Chauncey George

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

George Chauncey is professor of American history at the University of Chicago and the author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, which won the distinguished Turner and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay discrimination at the 1993 trial of Colorado's Amendment Two, which resulted in the Supreme Court's Romer v. Evans decision that antigay rights referenda were unconstitutional, and he was the principal author of the Historians' Amicus Brief, which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas (2003). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives and works in Chicago.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Gay 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. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0465026338
• ISBN 13: 9780465026333
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 496