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Title: Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area by Susan Stryker, Jim Van Buskirk, Jim Van Buskirk, Armistead Maupin ISBN: 0811811875 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: Index of book fails to support research value: Mapplethorpe
Comment: This book works as an entertainment, but as a research book it trips itself by not indexing everyone and everything mentioned in the body of the text. For example, check out the "Robert Mapplethorpe and Jack Fritscher" connection --as well as San Francisco's own Gay-Bay "Drummer" magazine itself-- all on page 134, and then try to find these two people and that singular magazine in the index. This is just one instance of sloppy indexing and sloppier scholarship that mars this volume,and the integrity of the editors--at least to this anal-retentive buyer of historical books. The two editors seem asleep at the wheel, relying on researchers who lack an overview. They should have paid attention. Armistead Maupin in his superficial introduction takes the usual cheap, gay potshot at Judaism and Christianity for the woes suffered by lesbigay culture, when he could have done so much more with the opportunity of the two pages to theorize/talk about the actual Gay-Bay culture itself. Obviously, his name is exploited as an advertising device for a kind of cover "endorsement".