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Queer street : rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985

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Queer street : rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985 / by James McCourt.

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"A seminal work that may prove unrivaled in its ability to capture the voices of a mad, bygone era, Queer Street is a voluptuous, anecdotal history of New York's gay life in the twentieth century - a literary ode, a swan song - that barrels through four decades of crisis and triumph up to the era of the floodtide of AIDS." "Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York in the now-mythical golden age before the McCarthy witch hunts, Queer Street tells the extraordinary story of the flowering, fruition, and falling-to-seed of American-generated gay culture in the latter half of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

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Part 1 Origination -- Part 2 Investigations -- Part 3 Breaking Out -- Part 4 Expatriates -- Part 5 Return Engagements (Postquam Rearrived) -- Part 6 Dead Reckonings -- Part 7 Lost Angeles (Inside Story).

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