ABSTRACT
Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York, San Francisco and Fire Island, the contributors also consider the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Birmingham and Flint, demonstrating that gay communities are truly everywhere.
Contributors: Brett Beemyn, Nan Alamilla Boyd, George Chauncey, Madeline Davis, Allen Drexel, John Howard, David Johnson, Liz Kennedy, Joan Nestle, Esther Newton, Tim Retzloff, Marc Stein, Roey Thorpe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |46 pages
2. “I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to that Bar”
Lesbian Bar Culture in Buffalo in the 1930s and 1940s
chapter |22 pages
4. The Kids of Fairytown
Gay Male Culture on Chicago's Near North Side in the 1930s
chapter |26 pages
5. Before Paris Burned
Race, Class, and Male Homosexuality on the Chicago South Side, 1935–1960
chapter |27 pages
8. A Queer Capital
Race, Class, Gender, and the Changing Social Landscape of Washington's Gay Communities, 1940–1955
chapter |15 pages
9. Place and Movement in Gay American History
A Case from the Post-World War II South
chapter |36 pages
11. “Birthplace of the Nation”
Imagining Lesbian and Gay Communities in Philadelphia, 1969–1970
