Historian Chncey (Univ. of Chigo) brilliantly maps out the plex gay world of turn-of-the-century New York Cy.
Contents:
- GAY NEW YORK: GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY MALE WORLD 1890-1940
- GAY NEW YORK
- GAY NEW YORK : GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKGS OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940
- BOOKS FOR LGBTQ PRI MONTH: GAY LIFE AND HISTORY NEW YORK CY
- GAY NYC BOOKS
- GAY NEW YORK
- GAY NEW YORK SUMMARY
GAY NEW YORK: GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY MALE WORLD 1890-1940
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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.
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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. 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.
GAY NEW YORK : GENR, URBAN CULTURE, AND THE MAKGS OF THE GAY MALE WORLD, 1890-1940
”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.
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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.
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” The mastreamg of workg-class sociabily meant the heightened visibily of gay men, long faiar figur on the streets and vville stag of rougher neighborhoods (and on the park bench and rooftops where workg-class upl, straight and gay, sought a ltle darkened privacy away om their crowd fay tenements); and wh the wang of the Harlem craze, the “Negro vogue” for elaborate plantatn- and jungle-themed floor shows, nightspots began phg a new transgrsive novelty, the “pansy show. Prohibn spread rather than eradited saloon culture, mgled rather than separated gay and straight, bourgeois and prole; the post-repeal New York State Liquor Authory was more effective regulatg social life, and led the charge excludg homosexualy om the mastream entertament world which had bee so visible durg the 1920s. My outle of this first volume is muddled and skimpy, and n’t possibly suggt the vast human edy Chncey has unearthed—Harlem’s popular and highly veloped drag circu, or the bold pickup subculture worshipfully voted to policemen, or the eply discreet gay middle class worlds; the subway washrooms, the social world of the baths, the hundreds of heartbreakg arrts, jailgs, beatgs and bashgs, the hilar rrponnce of Parker Tyler—Jul, beg dnk, mped wh them [a bunch of “straight” men:] too, and they tried to date him—even after feelg his mcle: he uld have laid them all low: really ’s as wi as this paper.
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Armed wh a mounta of rearch drawn om urt dockets, arrt rerds, vice society rerds, journals, scrapbooks, newspapers, tabloids, and terviews, he unearths a lorful history smoothed-over by post-WWII cultural retaliatn, makg clear that New York Cy was home to a plex and sophistited gay world the first half of the 20th past is a funhoe mirror, filled wh thgs at once faiar and strange.
GAY NEW YORK SUMMARY
From drag balls to hoe parti, saloons to bathho, Chncey’s history explor the ups and downs of gay life across class boundari, cludg the reful double-life kept by many middle-class gay ’s too much ntent to easily summarize, but the drag balls were a particularly tertg highlight.