The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 - Hardcover

Kaiser, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395657814 ISBN 13: 9780395657812

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Synopsis

A social and political history of modern gay life focuses on New York City, describing the gay rights movement and prominent gay figures

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Review:

Charles Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996, a history of gay life centered in New York, is packed with tales of writers and literature. Kaiser provides a kaleidoscope of details and stories that create a vision of how gay people lived, and illuminates a culture that had enormous influence on both New York and American society. Kaiser writes about such luminaries as Gore Vidal, Edward Albee, Truman Capote, and James Baldwin, but the real drive of The Gay Metropolis is how gay art and writings transformed the lives of everyday gay people. By the end of the book it is clear that gay artistic influence has transformed the American metropolis for both heterosexuals and homosexuals.

About the Author:

Charles Kaiser is the author of the 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Choas, Counter-Culture and the Shaping of a Generation. A former repoter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Joutnal and the former media editor of Newsweek, he has also written for Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, Vogue, and many other publications. He has taught at Columbia University and at Princeton, where he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism. Kaiser currently calls New York City his home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395657814
• ISBN 13: 9780395657812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404