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Becoming visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America

Title
  1. Becoming visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America / Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Public Library : Penguin Studio, [1998]
  2. ©1998
Author
  1. McGarry, Molly

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Additional authors
  1. Wasserman, Fred
Description
  1. xvii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
Summary
  1. "Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America traces one hundred years of same-sex social worlds and political life in the United States: from the extensive gay worlds that took shape in city streets, bars, and tenements beginning in the early twentieth century through a national coming-out during World War II; the repression of the McCarthy era to the liberating forces of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the gay liberation and lesbian feminist movements; the AIDS crisis, renewed activism in the 1990s; and much more. In text and images, the book celebrates gay and lesbian heritage, illuminates long-invisible worlds, and chronicles a vital aspect of American history." -- Jacket.
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. Homosexuality > United States > History > 20th century
  3. Gay people > United States > History > 20th century
  4. Gay liberation movement > United States > History > 20th century
  5. Gay liberation movement
  6. Gays
  7. Homosexuality
  8. Queer activism
  9. Gay liberation
  10. LGBTQ+ activism
  11. LGBTQ+ people
  12. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Stonewall -- "There's a Riot Goin' On" -- Sodomites, Perverts, and Queers -- Labeling and Policing -- Social Worlds -- Early Women's Communities -- Out on the Town -- "I Love the Nightlife" -- Cruising -- Lesbian Pulps -- Physiques -- Friends and Lovers -- Organizing -- An Emerging Minority -- Gay Liberation -- Lesbian Feminism -- Gay Rights -- Confronting AIDS -- The Queer Nineties.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "Based on an exhibition curated by Fred Wasserman, Molly McGarry, and Mimi Bowling."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-267) and index.