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Contents:

• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY
• BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY
• MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• 'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG
• GAY LIFE NEW YORK, BETWEEN OPPRSN AND FREEDOM
• GAY NEW YORK: GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY MALE WORLD 1890-1940
• MOVG THROUGH NEW YORK’S EARLY 20TH-CENTURY GAY SPAC

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

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THE 10 BEST NEW YORK CY GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS NEW YORK CY

A list of further readg New York: Genr Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World 1890 – 1940 | Gee ChnceyPublished on the ocsn of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, Gee Chncey’s Gay New York reveals that urban gay life prr to 1969 wasn’t always hidg the closet. —Barbara Bieck, Special Collectns LibrarianAngels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on Natnal Them | Tony Khner & The World Only Sps Forward: The Ascent of Angels Ameri | Isaac Butler and Dan KoisBy the time I saw a productn of Tony Khner’s game-changg epic, many of s phras—poignant, polil, perfect—had long entered my vobulary.

BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY

—Katie Fris, Events AssistantQueer Street: Rise and Fall of an Amerin Culture, 1947-1985 | Jam McCourtA very wise iend told me that among the many tragedi that acpanied AIDS was the loss of a generatn of gay storytellers to brg people of my generatn up to speed on gay culture.

MOVG TO LGBT NEW YORK CY, NEW YORK? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

—Ashley-Luisa Santangelo, Biblgraphic AssistantChildren’s & Young Adult BooksStonewall: Breakg Out the Fight for Gay Rights | Ann Bsum (ebook)Wh a poetic prologue Ann Bsum leads rears on a tour of the Wt Village 1969, endg ont of the Stonewall Inn, where “history walks through that door. ” Throughout the rt of the brief, prehensive, and pellg Stonewall: Breakg Out the Fight for Gay Rights, Bsum tails how LGTBQ New Yorkers lived—often fear and mostly the closet— the years leadg up to Stonewall rts, the events that spurred the raid and subsequent rts, life and ath durg the AIDS epimic, and the s of wispread activism and pri that have followed that July eveng 1969. —San Vcent Molaro, Children's and Young Adult LibrarianFurther ReadgArt and Sex Greenwich Village: Gay Lerary Life after Stonewall | Felice PinoThe Cambridge Compann to Gay and Lbian Wrg | eded by Hugh Stevens (see the chapter “The queer wrer New York, ” by David Bergman)The Cambridge Compann to the Lerature of New York | eded by Cys R.

'THEY BEAT YOU WH THEIR BATON': A VETERAN OF THE STONEWALL RTS AND THE FIRST PRI MARCH SHAR WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR GAY AMERINS BEFORE THE UPRISG

Patell and Bryan Waterman (see the chapter, “Stagg lbian and gay New York, ” by Rob Bernste)Celluloid Activist: The Llife and Tim of Vo Rso | Michael SchiaviChronicle of a Plague, Revised: AIDS and s Aftermath | Andrew HolleranCy Boy: My Life New York Durg the 1960s and '70s | Edmund WheCy of Night | John RechyThe Cosmopolans and other novels | Sarah SchulmanDancer om the Dance and other novels | Anadrew HolleranGay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York | Donald Albrecht wh Stephen VirThe Gay Metropolis, 1940-1966 | Charl KaiserGreenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture | Eded by Rick Beard and Llie Cohen BerlowzHighsmh: A Romance of the 1950s | Marijane MeakerLove and Ristance: Out of the Closet to the Stonewall Era | Photographs by Kay tob Lahen and Diana Davi; om the New York Public Library Archiv; eded by Jason Bmann; wh an troductn by Roxane GayNights at Rizzoli | Felice PinoOn Beg Different | Merle MillerOne of The Thgs First | Steven GaRebel Souls: Walt Whman and Ameri's First Bohemians | Jt MartRepublic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the Amerin Bohemia, 1915-1950 | Ross WetzsteonThe Rt of : Htlers, Coe, Deprsn, and Then Some, 1976-1988 | Mart DubermanRock the Sham!

Patrick's Day Para | Anne MaguireSlummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940 | Chad HeapStonewall | Mart DubermanStonewall Rear | New York Public Library (first acunts, diari, perdic lerature, and articl om the NYPL archiv); troductn by Edmund WheStonewall Rts: A Documentary History | Marc SteStonewall: The Rts That Sparked the Gay Revolutn | David CarterToo Much is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumblg Toward Adulthood | Andrew RannellsVery Recent History: An Entirely Factual Acunt of a Year (c.

GAY LIFE NEW YORK, BETWEEN OPPRSN AND FREEDOM

QunThe Young and Evil | Charl Ford and Parker Tyler (set Greenwich Village and first published 1933; wily nsired the first gay novel)Young Man From the Provc: A Gay Life Before Stonewall | Alan HelmsZami, a new Spellg of my Name | Audre LordChildren's and Young Adult BooksAnd Tango Mak Three | Jt Richardson and Peter ParnellBetter Nate Than Ever | Tim FerleThe Divers | Libba BrayFrom the Notebooks of Melan Sun | Jacquele WoodsonHidn Oracle | Rick RrdanHistory is All You Left Me | Adam SilveraHome at Last | Vera B. As Gee Chncey explas his masterly book Gay New York, at that time people tend to divi men not to gay and straight, but to ‘normal men’ and ‘fairi’ and was nsired possible for ‘normal men’ to have sex wh ‘fairi’ whout brgg their normaly to qutn, so long as they retaed the sertive role sex.

GAY NEW YORK: GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY MALE WORLD 1890-1940

Or if ‘makg a mment to heterosexualy’ is the crern — Masters and Johnson mand this of their patients — then this sometim ‘works’ but only wh people who have a gree of heterosexual rponse and who, by dt of will unr the ey of kdly thory figur, ph their homosexual tast asi. And jt as the birth-ntrol pill ed sgle women the sixti to wonr whether they’d be seen as ‘sluts’ and to ternalize that real and imaged shame, some gay men wonr how Tvada will play the straight world; sends a strikgly different msage om the one the ‘Sunday Styl’ weddg announcements.

By the 1890s, genr non-nformg people had ma the Bowery a center of queer life, and “by the 1920s they had created three distct gay neighborhood enclav Greenwich Village, Harlem, and Tim Square, each wh a different class and ethnic character, gay cultural style, and public reputatn” (3).

Lgbtq-history655 reviews964 followersApril 20, 2020Wrten rponse to the notn that the 'closet' always has existed for Amerin gay men and lbians, as well as the ncept that genr and sexualy always have been distct domas of personhood, Chncey's Gay New York argu that gay people were not isolated, visible, and self-hatg durg the first s of the twentieth century. Only after WWII, when what Chncey lls "homo-heterosexual barism" beme hegemonic across the natn, were they forced to hidg si of a closet newly nstcted by the state, until the advent of the morn gay rights movement 1969 ma possible liberatn and re-entrance to the public sphere.

MOVG THROUGH NEW YORK’S EARLY 20TH-CENTURY GAY SPAC

Chncey brilliantly tails how a diverse range of genr/sexual inti -existed wh each other wh New York durg the perd, all the while trackg how "homosexual" and "heterosexual"—the two sexual inti that would overpower and erase the rt after the war—rose to promence whe middle-class society.

Chncey has jt fished discsg the many ruals by which the sailors, dockworkers, hobo/seasonal laborers and homosocial immigrants of early 1900s New York affirmed manls and male stat (you're physilly strong; you do hard and dangero work; you domate sexual partners, be they female prostut or the pated rent boys loungg every saloon; you drk a lot, and buy drks for your pals); he's about to lnch his argument that our ironclad hetero-homosexual barism evolved as the only way for the skbound, domtited middle class men to fe manls. ”Homosexuals occupied a visible niche the street life of immigrant neighborhoods, the wateront saloon i of the “bachelor subculture, ” the Storyvill of the Sportg Life—While a few words ed by gay men were ma-up terms that had no meang standard English or slang, most gave standard terms a send, gay meang. Gay self referred to female prostut before referred to gay men; tra and trick referred to prostut’ ctomers before they referred to gay men’s partners; and cisg referred to a streetwalker’s search for partners before referred to a gay man’s—and were policed, surveilled and supprsed alongsi the other forms of rough mascule amement—prostutn, drkg, gamblg, burlque shows—gredient to that world.

[“Condns about the Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 6, 1917, ” box 25, Commtee of Fourteen papers, New York Public Library:]The story of one black gay man who lived the basement of a roomg hoe on Wt Fiftieth Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenu, 1919 suggts the latu—and limatns—of roomg hoe life.