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Contents:

• THE GAY METROPOLIS
• READ MORE OM THE GAY METROPOLIS AND CHARL KAISER:
• 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
• GAY METROPOLIS (MASSAC COUNTY, ILLOIS)
• THE GAY METROPOLIS : 1940-1996
• THE GAY METROPOLIS: THE LANDMARK HISTORY OF GAY LIFE AMERI SCE WORLD WAR II
• THE GAY METROPOLIS REVIEW: IF WE N SURVIVE AIDS, WE N SURVIVE TMP
• 'THE GAY METROPOLIS'
• THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940-1996

THE GAY METROPOLIS

At twelve Bigelow was already havg sex wh his classmat, but they didn’t thk their pastime had anythg to do wh beg “gay” or “homosexual, ” words that they had never heard spoken.

The nooks and shadows created by this shaft down the center of the avenue played a signifint role gay life New York before the war: they offered a multu of discreetly darkened meetg plac right the heart of the metropolis.

READ MORE OM THE GAY METROPOLIS AND CHARL KAISER:

The photographer was forty-two when Bigelow met him, and he kept himself f wh regular viss to the gym—a ctom that would bee almost universal among a certa class of gay men three s later. A New York Tim Notable Book of the Year and wner of a Lambda Lerary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a saga of stggle and triumph that was stantly regnized as one of the most thorative work of s kd.

Now, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, Charl Kaiser brgs this -by- acunt of the rise and acceptance of gay life and inty sce 1940 to the twenty-first century. In a new fal chapter for this edn, “The Twenty-First Century, ” he draws a le om Queer as Folk to Moonlight, each wh new ntext as their succs is amed by a reuntg of Jtice Anthony Kennedy’s fal landmark gay rights cisns, Uned Stat v.

17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS

The article was the first lm, balanced, nuanced and human explanatn of what meant to be gay ever published The Tim, and Merle Miller was the first proment wrer ever to e out s pag. Dan Savage has wrten the forward to the new edn, and Charl Kaiser has wrten the afterword, explag how Miller's piece affected him when he first read , and how dramatilly gay life has changed over the last four s. Kaiser’s lecture subjects clu the The Fascist Threat of Donald Tmp, The French Ristance, How World War II shaped morn Europe, How the ’60s Saved Ameri, and The Gay Revolutn Sce 1970.

GAY METROPOLIS (MASSAC COUNTY, ILLOIS)

“Updated and featurg a new troductn, Charl Kaiser’s landmark book The Gay Metropolis, featurg the addnal subtle ‘50 Years After Stonewall, ’ is even more sential readg than ever.

A New York Tim Notable Book of the Year and wner of a Lambda Lerary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a saga of stggle and triumph that was stantly regnized as one of the most thorative works of s kd.

In a new fal chapter for this edn, “The Twenty-First Century, ” he draws a le om Queer as Folk to Moonlight, each wh new ntext as their succs is amed by a reuntg of Jtice Anthony Kennedy’s fal landmark gay rights cisns, Uned Stat v. “In the 1950s there were approximately three openly gay public figur Ameri: Jam Baldw, Allen Gsberg and sort of Gore Vidal — although he never scribed himself as gay, ” Kaiser says. In the early morng of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village as part of systematic crackdown on the few tablishments terg to openly gay ctomers.

THE GAY METROPOLIS : 1940-1996

The raid sparked a vlent backlash and monstratns that me to be lled the Stonewall rts, which marked the begng of the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s-’80s and the morn fight for LGBT rights the U. Like every gay man or lbian my age, and everyone else on the wing ntuum of the sexual other, I was given an extraordary gift: I am alive at the bt time to be gay sce Aristotle. “What has been most remarkable about the twenty-first century is how fast thgs have sped up, both cultural and polilly, for the gay movement — much faster than we thought would possibly happen.

THE GAY METROPOLIS: THE LANDMARK HISTORY OF GAY LIFE AMERI SCE WORLD WAR II

“Gay life New York Cy, as was the rt of the Uned Stat and ed the rt of the wtern world, was visible to everyone except those participatg … Generally speakg, if you were a gay person you did everythg your pacy to keep a secret om your iends, om your fay and om anyone else who wasn’t gay. “Forty-ne years ago, on the first anniversary of the rts outsi the Stonewall Inn, thoands of ‘young men and women homosexuals’ om all over the north-east marched om Greenwich Village to the Sheep Meadow Central Park.

THE GAY METROPOLIS REVIEW: IF WE N SURVIVE AIDS, WE N SURVIVE TMP

The two never publicly acknowledged a sexual relatnship, but the closens earns scty even today, pecially wh Hoover's history of antagonizg gay people, but the FBI matas still that there was no evince Hoover was Foley Gets Too DeepHow much trouble did U.

'THE GAY METROPOLIS'

Some historians nsir the men to be the first gay print and vice Brgs Down LBJ HonchoWalter Jenks served as Print Lyndon Johnson's chief of staff, and by many acunts was key to brgg the former Texas senator to his historic posn of power.

But the cint would be jt one mark on a sndal-plagued reer and he would eventually rign due to tax evasn by SndalIt would be nice if the first out ngrsman to serve Washgton's halls of power fact ma his own cisn to make his homosexualy known to the world.

THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940-1996

He would go on to be an outspoken Hoe member supportg same-sex marriage and other gay rights long before public opn swung a directn helpful to LGBT Social Conservative to Out, Poz ActivistRepublin Congrsman Jon Hson started his reer as a young pol reprentg a socially nservative area of Mississippi. In the wake of the Larry Craig sndal (see earlier this list), Dick suggted that policians who were a posn to vote agast gay rights spe beg gay themselv served special scty and srn. At twelve Bigelow was already havg sex wh his classmat, but they didn't thk their pastime had anythg to do wh beg "gay" or "homosexual, " words that they had never heard spoken.

The photographer was forty-two when Bigelow met him, and he kept himself f wh regular viss to the gym--a ctom that would bee almost universal among a certa class of gay men three s later.

The "rpectable" (and eply closeted) gay men whom Bigelow knew were hont about their homosexualy only among themselv; they were horrified by the brazen displays of the Tim Square crowd. to gay life Manhattan over the next uple of years nvced him that not everyone felt guilty about beg homosexual, although he himself remaed uncid about his ultimate orientatn. The Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People was already well tablished, and some northern llege mp wnsed civil rights monstratns prottg the treatment of Ain Amerins, but gays remaed outsi any liberal's.