This chronicle of gay life New York Cy over the last half a century tells a story of progrsive cultural, social, and polil vditn. Seasoned journalist Kaiser's earlier book, 1968 Ameri: Mic, Polics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shapg of a Generatn (1988), examed a semal year of morn Amerin experience. Here he tak on six s, begng wh WW II and s aftermath of sexual openns. One terviewee scribed as ``a ltle distilled moment out of time,'' when the horrors of war sparked a tolerance of and even a zt for the varieti of sexual experience. But when ordary life and olr prejudic rumed the 1950s, gay activists had to work all the harr to w both self-rpect and social acceptance om often hostile parti. Kaiser reunts landmark events the stggle—such as the Ksey Report, Stonewall, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn's reclassifitn of homosexualy, the first scriptive e of ``gay'' (stead of ``homosexual'') the New York Tim—as well as offerg the personal reflectns of people then on the scene: mostly gay men (and several lbians), many of them well-known artists or public figur. He shows a weakns for alludg to the rich and famo (Philip Johnson, Leonard Bernste, Montgomery Clift, for example) and for stackg up sequenc of anecdot about their private liv. Amid all the glter, at least one omissn is nspicuo: the lack of any mentn of Andrew Holleran's fg 1978 book, Dancer om the Dance, which hered facts of New York's gay realy to a fictnal work of bety and pathos still cherished by rears. Neverthels, Kaiser has done gay men (and others) a service wh this brightly toned narrative—many will fd a sense of themselv and their experienc , warmly affirmed. (33 b&w photos, not seen) (Author tour)
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- THE GAY METROPOLIS
- THE GAY METROPOLIS : 1940-1996
- 'THE GAY METROPOLIS'
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- THE GAY METROPOLIS REVIEW: IF WE N SURVIVE AIDS, WE N SURVIVE TMP
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- THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940-1996
- THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940-1996
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Charl Kaiser reunts the te history of the gay movement wh many never-before-told stori. * gay metropolis kaiser *
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. And que quickly Gordon cid that he was “very to not beg gay, ” Bigelow relled.
Three s later, Merrick wrote The Lord Won’t Md, one of the first gay novels to bee a bt-seller the seventi, and he moled one of s betiful young men after Bigelow. Bigelow would never be as famo as his roommat, but among gay men New York he was a legend: a great many nsired him the bt-lookg man Manhattan.
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Bigelow socialized wh a group of gay men whom his ntemporary, the playwright Arthur Lrents, rid as “the silver and cha queens. ” Lrents scribed the gentlemen as “a class of gay om way back that was always as right-wg as possible, out of a sperate sire to belong.
It’s like gay upl who try to emulate heterosexual upl. 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.
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And even though he ntued to believe that he was sted to marry a woman, he led a very gay Manhattan life.
Gay bars, no.
After he enrolled Haton College, he fally nfid a sympathetic an, who he thought was probably gay. ” Bigelow fally admted to himself that he really was gay.
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Now featurg an updated troductn celebratg the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall "The landmark portra of 20th-century New York viewed through the ey of gay New Yorkers." —The New York Observer A New York Tim Notable Book of the Year and ... * gay metropolis 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. An Historic Gay Rights Rulg From a Convervative Court. Should Straight Actors Play Gay Rol?
New Edn: The Gay Metropolis.
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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.
The Gay Metropolis is a story of fn. 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.
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New om Pengu Classics: Pengu Classics has republished On Beg Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual, by Merle Miller.
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.
The Gay Metropolis, the landmark history of gay life Ameri, will be published a third new updated edn for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rt June, 2019.
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1968 and The Gay Metropolis are both available om Grove Prs. Kaiser was a founr and former print of the New York chapter of the Natnal Lbian and Gay Journalists Associatn.
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. Fellow Gay People, Don’t Fet: We Are a Battle-Harned Movement.
Threats to Gays, Old and New.
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Forty Years On: Frank Kameny Tak the Long View on Obama & Gay Rights. Gay Polil Wars Washgton.
THE GAY METROPOLIS, 1940-1996
The Homosexual Translator Menace. 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.
that he was "very to not beg gay, " Bigelow relled. Three s later, Merrick wrote The Lord Won't Md, one of the first gay novels to bee a bt-seller the seventi, and he moled one of s betiful young men after Bigelow. Bigelow socialized wh a group of gay men whom his ntemporary, the playwright Arthur Lrents, rid as "the silver and cha queens.
" Lrents scribed the gentlemen as "a class of gay om way back that was always as right-wg. It's like gay upl who to try to emulate heterosexual upl. to marry a woman, he led a very gay Manhattan life.
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was probably gay. " Bigelow fally admted to himself that he really was gay. 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.