Author: NEWTON, ESTHER
Title: Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America;S First Gay and Lesbian Town
Description: Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. 0807079278. First Paperback Edition. Later Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0807079278. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with 20 pages of B&W photographs. "This perceptive and engaging book reconstructs the extraordinary, campy, and sometimes heartbreaking history of gays on Fire Island since the 1930s in astonishing detail. But it also offers a broader analysis of the class, racial, ethnic, and gender divisions in the lesbian and gay world and of the profound ways in which gay culture has changed in the last half-century that is sure to be pondered and debated for years to come." (George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940).. Covers only lightly soiled, else fine: unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Trade PB. Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 378 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: 0807079278 Lesbians; Gay Men; Fire Island; Cherry Grove; Homosexual Culture; New York; Lgbtq; History Philosophy & Social Sciences Politics
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Title: Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America;S First Gay and Lesbian Town
Description: Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. 0807079278. First Paperback Edition. Later Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0807079278. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with 20 pages of B&W photographs. "This perceptive and engaging book reconstructs the extraordinary, campy, and sometimes heartbreaking history of gays on Fire Island since the 1930s in astonishing detail. But it also offers a broader analysis of the class, racial, ethnic, and gender divisions in the lesbian and gay world and of the profound ways in which gay culture has changed in the last half-century that is sure to be pondered and debated for years to come." (George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940).. Covers only lightly soiled, else fine: unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Trade PB. Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 378 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: 0807079278 Lesbians; Gay Men; Fire Island; Cherry Grove; Homosexual Culture; New York; Lgbtq; History Philosophy & Social Sciences Politics
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 27308
- Book number: 27308
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