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Title: The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser ISBN: 0-15-600617-0 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Readable, Informative
Comment: A charming history of gay life in New York City (and by extension, the world) from 1940-1996. Scholars will dig the history, gossips will exult in learning who was doing whom. It has those tersely journalistic minichapters that keep you reading "just one more" until three in the morning. A good book for toilet visits, subway reads (about two stops to digest a section), or curling up on the couch by an open window in winter waiting for snow. It is by turns witty, lurid, hilarious, informative, erotic, and touching--all the elements which comprise daily life in New York City. The Gay Metropolis is an intellectual turn-on, whether you're gay, straight or in between. You don't have to be gay to read it, though it might make you wish you were if you're not.
Rating: 4
Summary: Charming Anecdotes Posing as History
Comment: There is much to enjoy in the Gay Metropolis (subtitled the landmark history of gay life in America since World War II). The history is presented as a series of observations and anecdotes from many people who lived in the gay scene during this time. The subtitle is a little misleading as the book is really only covering New York and not America and there is no he said, she said as it is basically (with a few very interesting exceptions) only men who are covered in this book. It is by no means a definitive history but it is an entertaining read as the stories are usually told well and are intimately personal. As the book goes on, most readers over the age of thirty will learn nothing new but it still reads quickly and pleasantly. A fun volume for the general reader of a slice of the Big Apple gay life.
Rating: 4
Summary: Detailed, readable, dishy
Comment: Highly detailed, highly readable, and more than a little dishy, Kaiser's chronicle of post-WWII gay life and culture is told through the stories of the individuals -- activists, celebrities, writers; many fascinating, some tragic -- who shaped it. The book's focus on New York gay males is a limitation, of course, but this is still a rich and essential volume in 20th century gay history.
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Title: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey ISBN: 0465026214 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman ISBN: 0140171223 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History by John Loughery ISBN: 080506124X Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder, Pamela Robin Brandt ISBN: 0684839571 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Chronicles of the White Rose Book One: The Stradivarius Affair by Laurie J. Kendall ISBN: 141073899X Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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