The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 - The Landmark History of Gay Life in America Since World War II (1997) Front Cover Book Details Author Charles Kaiser Genre Herstory, History Publication Date 1997 Format Hardcover (236 x 162 mm) Publisher Houghton Mifflin Co Language English Plot For hundreds of thousands of gay Americans, New York City is the literal gay metropolis: the place where they have learned how to live openly, honestly, and without shame. But the figurative gay metropolis is much larger: it encompasses every place on every continent where gay people have found the courage and the dignity to be free. The Gay Metropolis is a compelling social and political history of modern gay life in America. Charles Kaiser is the first author to devote equal attention to the personal and the political, alternating between the 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 neighbor spied her with an arm around her girlfriend at the end of a wartime blackout. Though it focuses on New York City, The Gay Metropolis includes stops in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Paris, Egypt, and Israel to capture wry, important, or novel tales. And it covers the major social, political, and cultural events that have affected the way gay people view themselves and how they have been treated by the larger society. Personal Details In Collection Yes URL This book on the Internet Index 214 Read It Yes Product Details ISBN 0395657814 Cover Price $27.00 Nr of Pages 404 First Edition No Rare No