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• BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY
• GAY NEW YORK : GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKGS OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940
• GAY NEW YORK
• GAY NEW YORK SUMMARY
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• GAY NEW YORK
• GAY NEW YORK
• ‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG
• GAY NEW YORK
• GAY NEW YORK
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

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

To celebrate, staff members remend favore books our llectn—new and old—on gay culture, life, and history 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.

Rather, Chncey shows that there was a vibrant and visible gay culture New York Cy until the 1930s, when changg social mor phed the gay world unrground. He tak to plac where gay life flourished the early 20th century—feterias, bars, and bathho—to rent parti Harlem, and drag balls Greenwich Village attend by thoands and vered the prs. —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.

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

Both were young, gay, and prone to bad behavr.

It’s a wonrful snapshot of the kd of gay life possible New York pre-Stonewall for those urageo enough to seek .

Though the narrator is gay, she never gets to outright say so, an aspect that only Woodson uld treat so subtly, and wh such heart. —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.

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This pageant of gay life is peopled wh mp ins like Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead, wrers like Tennsee Williams and Jam Baldw, and objects of sire like Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. At turns hilar and heartbreakg, Queer Street is a tly unique acunt of gay New York.

As a equent visor of sex theatr and gay bars, Delany shows how people gaed pleasure and accs through terclass ntact pro-sex tablishments. More than a love letter to a begone gay cisg ground, Delany challeng the homophobic gentrifitn that shuttered the sex tablishments and turned Time Square to a Disneyland tourist trap. They formed ACT UP at the Lbian & Gay Communy Servic Center on Wt 13th Street to react to the horrors AIDS wrought and unter the ld and different rponse they received om policians and medil profsnals.

—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.

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” 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.

THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

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!

: The Irish Lbian & Gay Organizatn's Battle to March New York Cy's St. 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. 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.

[365]-457) and xThis groundbreakg work shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only the closet where gay men were isolated, visible, and self-hatg. Based on years of rearch and accs to a rich trove of public and private documents, this is a look at a gay world that was not supposed to have existed. Focg on New York Cy, the gay pal of the natn for nearly a century, Chncey recreat the saloons, speakeasi, and feterias where gay men gathered, the timate parti and immense drag balls where they celebrated, and the highly visible rintial enclav they built Greenwich Village, Harlem, and Tim Square.

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He offers new perspectiv on the gay rights revolutn of our time by showg that the opprsn the gay and lbian movement attacked the 1960s was not an unchangg phenomenon-- had tensified the 1920s and 1930s as a direct rponse to the visibily of the gay world those years. Recently, Alan Hollghurst said the gay novel is ad. "There was an urgency, a novelty to the whole thg, " said the gay thor, who won the Man Booker Prize for The Le of Bety.

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" Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay. "Gvanni's Room is not really about homosexualy, " said Baldw a 1980 terview about queer life.

‘I JT WANT SOMETHG THAT’S GAY AND HAPPY’: L.G.B.T.Q. ROMANCE IS BOOMG

Go Tell It on the Mounta, for example, is not about a church, and Gvanni is not really about homosexualy.

SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like.

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Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford. The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy.

The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance. Alan Hollghurst famoly qutned the future of the gay novel this year, which is strikg sce he's often viewed as helpg make queer books accsible to a mastream dience.

Hollghurst set his pen on the sexual hypocrisi of homophobic policians, many of whom had their own discretns behd closed doors.

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The book follows Nick Gut, a gay graduate stunt unofficially adopted by the fay of a schoolmate. The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo. The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today.

The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici. Cy of Night, a 1963 novel by John Rechy, is a semal piece of fictn that follows the life of a gay htler New York Cy, Los Angel, New Orleans, and San Francis. "This epic chronicle of gay culture the Amerin sixti is as far-reachg as is important, givg a glimpse to inty and motive, " affirmed SJ Sdu, the thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Gay lerature was forever changed the day Mary Ann Sgleton first met her transgenr landlady, Anna Madrigal, when she moved to San Francis's 28 Barbary Lane. The 1982 book by Edmund Whe, which begs wh the first sexual enunter of a 15-year-old boy, is based on his own experienc g to terms wh his gay inty as a youth the Midwtern Uned Stat. Whe would later wre two addnal novels, The Betiful Room Is Empty (1988) and The Farewell Symphony (1997), which follow his gay protagonist to young adulthood.

Together, they form a poignant trilogy that chronicl a gay life the latter half of the 20th century. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy. Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect.

Some might say Death Venice is not necsarily a gay novel, sce there is no overt same-sex uplg or .