1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
George Chauncey
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-h…