Research Catalog

Title

City of friends : a portrait of the gay and lesbian community in America / Simon LeVay and Elisabeth Nonas.

Author

LeVay, Simon

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1995]

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Details

Additional Authors

Nonas, Elisabeth, 1949-

Description

xi, 456 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"City of Friends offers a practical, intelligent, and well-informed overview of what it means to be gay or lesbian. The authors seek to help gay men and women, as well as their families and friends, to better understand the institutions and communities that make up the most culturally and ethnically diverse minority in America today."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Gay community > United States
• Lesbian community > United States
• Gay men > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
• Lesbians > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
• Gay community
• Gay men > Social conditions
• Lesbian community
• Lesbians > Social conditions
• Homosexueller
• Soziale Situation
• Lesbe
• Homoseksualiteit
• Gay men > United States > Social conditions
• Lesbians > United States > Social conditions
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-439) and index.

Contents

pt. 1: Origins. Meanings ; A global view ; History ; Science -- pt. 2: Communities. Numbers ; Localities ; A gay ghetto ; Country lesbians ; Minorities ; Sexual diversity ; Special interests -- pt. 3: Health. General health issues ; AIDS : the disease ; AIDS : the response -- pt. 4: Rights. The law ; Politics -- pt. 5: Culture. Lesbian art ; Gay men and the arts ; Religion and spirituality.

ISBN

• 0262121948
• 9780262121941
• 0262621134
• 9780262621137

LCCN

95034824

OCLC

• ocm32892385
• 32892385
• SCSB-14692168

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library