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 | Gay New York; gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940. by George Chauncey Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-465-02621-4 / 0465026214 ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02621-0 / 9780465026210 George Chauncey's innovative and prodigiously researched Gay New York belies the myth of the pre-Stonewall closet and unearths a thriving gay culture in Gotham in the half-decade before World War II, before "the decline of the fairy and the rise of the closet." (23) Contrary to Whiggish notions of s | |