Gay Seattle: Stori of Exile and Belongg on JSTOR

Contents:

• GAY SEATTLE
• GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG PAPERBACK – APRIL 5, 2013
• GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG

GAY SEATTLE

In 1893, the Washgton State legislature quietly began passg a set of laws that sentially ma homosexualy, and eventually even the discsn of homosexualy, a crime. By ntrast, one century later Mike Lowry beme the first ernor of the state to addrs the annual lbian and gay pri rally Seattle.

GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG PAPERBACK – APRIL 5, 2013

Gay Seattle trac the evolutn of Seattle’s gay muny those 100 turbulent years, tellg through a century of stori how gays and lbians have sought to achieve a sense of belongg and equaly Seattle. Gay Seattle reunts the monizatn of gays by social csars around the turn of the century, the earlit prosecutns for sodomy, the official harassment and discrimatn through most of the twentieth century, and the medil discrimatn and mment to mental hospals that ntued to the 1970s as homosexualy was diagnosed as a disease that uld be “cured.

GAY SEATTLE: STORI OF EXILE AND BELONGG

Plac of refuge om this imposed social exile were created unrground theater and dance clubs: the Gold Rh-era burlque shows, morn drag theater, and mid-century the emergence of openly gay bars, om the Caso to Shelley’s Leg. The creasgly public prence of gays Seattle was acpanied by the gradual alcence of social servic and self-help anizatns such as the Dorian Society, gay bs and advocy groups cludg the Greater Seattle Bs Associatn, and the stormy relatnship between the Vatin, Seattle’s Catholic hierarchy, and gay worshippers. Gay Seattle reveals the plex and often tratg procs of claimg a civic life, showg how gays and lbians have engaged a multilayered stggle for equaly agast the forc of state and cy polics, the police, the media, and public opn.

The emergence of mastream polil activism the 1970s, and ultimately the electn of Cal Anrson and other openly gay officials to the state legislature and cy uncil, were momento events, yet shadowed by the vastatg rise of AIDS and s effect on the homosexual muny as a whole. The stori of exile and belongg draw on numero origal terviews as well as se studi of dividuals and anizatns that played important rol the history of Seattle’s gay and lbian muny. Buy Gay Seattle om, Barn & Noble, or Universy of Washgton Prs.

Atks is an award-wng journalist whose works clu the crilly acclaimed Gay Seattle: Stori of Exile and Belongg and his new book, Imagg Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok and Cyber-Sgapore.