Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

McCourt, James, 1941-

Publication

• New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]
• ©2004

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Details

Description

xiv, 577 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Alternative Title

Rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Gay people > United States > History > 20th century
• Gay community > United States > History > 20th century
• Gay culture > United States > History > 20th century
• Gay people > United States > Social conditions > 20th century
• Gay culture
• Gay community
• Gays
• Gays > Social conditions
• Subcultuur
• Homoseksuelen
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

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).

ISBN

• 0393050513
• 9780393050516
• 0393326403
• 9780393326406

LCCN

• 2003016112
• 99807071838

OCLC

• ocm52720599
• 52720599
• SCSB-14692302

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library