The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser

The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser

Weaving oral history with precise cultural analysis, THE GAY METROPOLIS is the definitive social, cultural and political history of gay life in the major cities of the world over the last fifty years. Focusing on New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin, Kaiser chronicles how urban centres have been crucial in the genesis and evolution of gay culture. THE GAY METROPOLIS combines intimate stories of people as famous as Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal, and as little known as Sandy Kern, a young Brooklyn woman who first heard the word 'lesbian' when a neighbour spied her with her arm around her girlfriend at the end of a wartime blackout.

Kaiser, Charles: - Charles Kaiser is the author of 1968 in America, one of the most admired popular histories of the music, politics, and culture of the 1960s, and The Gay Metropolis, the landmark history of gay life in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award winner. He is a former reporter for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and a former press critic for Newsweek. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, New York, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Guardian, and New Republic, among other publications. He grew up in Washington, D.C.; Dakar, Senegal; London, England; and Windsor, Connecticut. Since 1968 he has lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, except for the two and a half years he spent in France to research The Cost of Courage.

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ISBN 13	9780297842170
ISBN 10	029784217X
Title	The Gay Metropolis
Author	Charles Kaiser
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	1998-05-11
Number of pages	512
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