Chauncey has found evidence of a gay world whose complexity and cohesion no previous historian dared to imagine."- Wayne Koestenbaum, Los Angeles Times, "Gay New York isn't just the definitive history of gays in New York from 1890 through 1940 it's also a wonderful account of the metropolitan character of modern gayness itself."- L.A. "A first-rate book of history.about all urban life, telling us as much about the heterosexual world as about the homosexual one."- New York Times, "One of the most fascinating works of American social history I've ever read."- Frank Rich, New York Times, "Even if you are not a devotee of theory or history, you will want to read Gay New York for its profusion of anecdotal detail-its coordinates of a Gay Atlantis, a buried city of Everard Baths, Harlem drag balls, and Vaseline alley.
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