The Gay Metropolis
The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
Published on 1. September 2018
432 pages
978-1-55584-831-6 (ISBN)
Description
Now featuring an updated introduction celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
"The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers." - The New York Observer
ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substantial work of its kind. Now, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, Charles Kaiser has brought this history into the twenty-first century. In this new edition he covers the three court cases that lead to the revolutionary legalization of gay marriage in America, as well as shifts toward inclusion in mainstream pop culture, with the Oscar-winning films Brokeback Mountainand Call Me by Your Name.
Filled with astounding anecdotes and searing tales of heartbreak and transformation, it provides a decade-by-decade account of the rise and acceptance of gay life and identity since the 1940s. From the making of West Side Storyto the catastrophic era of AIDS, and with a dazzling cast of characters-including Leonard Bernstein, Montgomery Clift, Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, and RuPaul-this is a vital telling of American history.
"The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers." - The New York Observer
ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as the most authoritative and substantial work of its kind. Now, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, Charles Kaiser has brought this history into the twenty-first century. In this new edition he covers the three court cases that lead to the revolutionary legalization of gay marriage in America, as well as shifts toward inclusion in mainstream pop culture, with the Oscar-winning films Brokeback Mountainand Call Me by Your Name.
Filled with astounding anecdotes and searing tales of heartbreak and transformation, it provides a decade-by-decade account of the rise and acceptance of gay life and identity since the 1940s. From the making of West Side Storyto the catastrophic era of AIDS, and with a dazzling cast of characters-including Leonard Bernstein, Montgomery Clift, Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, and RuPaul-this is a vital telling of American history.
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Person
Charles Kaiser, the author of
1968 in America, has been a reporter at the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, and
Newsweek. He has also written for
Vanity Fair,
New York magazine, and the
Washington Post. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton, and is the author of
The Gay Metropolis, a history of gay life in New York City since 1940.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for The Gay Metropolis
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the Stonewall Anniversary Edition
- Introduction
- I: The Forties
- II: The Fifties
- III: The Sixties
- IV: The Seventies
- V: The Eighties
- VI: The Nineties
- The Twenty-First Century
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Photo Insert
- Back Cover
