Contributions

  • Timmons, Stuart, 1957- - Contributor

Publication

2009 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

112,000 words, Guess

Page Count

448 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100520260619
  • ISBN-139780520260610
  • LibraryThing1717479
  • Goodreads7229105
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009015361
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number317927931
  • Better World Books9780520260610
  • Better World BooksP9-CLM-152
  • Open LibraryOL23212862M

Classifications

  • DDC306.76/609794
  • LCCHQ76.3.L7 F33 2009
  • LCCHQ76.3.L7F33 2009

Description

The exhortation to “Go West!” has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels provided a special home and gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world. Drawing on rare archives and photographs as well as more than three hundred interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered “two spirits” to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the explosion of gay life during World War II to the underground radicalism set off by the 1950s blacklist; and from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s.

Subjects

Topics

GaysHistoryHomosexualityLGBTQ historyGays, historyLambda Literary AwardsHomosexuality, history

Other Editions

  • Gay L. A.: a history of sexual outlaws, power politics, and lipstick lesbiansUniversity of California Press2009-01-01

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