Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: Excursions in the Mind of the Life - Tapa dura

McCourt, James

 
9780393050516: Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985: Excursions in the Mind of the Life
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ISBN 10: 0393050513 ISBN 13: 9780393050516
Editorial: WW Norton & Co, 2003

Sinopsis

Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York in the golden age before McCarthyism, Queer Street tells the explosive story of gay culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. Coming out himself in the "buttoned-up/button-down" 1950s, McCourt positions his own experience against the whirlwind history of the era, summoning a pageant of characters that includes Harry Hay, Judy Garland, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote. In a learned but lively voice, McCourt highlights the major events of the period: the landmark eruption at the Stonewall Inn, the AIDS crisis that brought an end to a century of bathhouse culture, the ascendancy of the Christian right, and finally the social acceptance of gays that paradoxically marked the demise of queer culture. "Not since Truman Capote's Black and White Ball has there been such a gala collection of sacred monsters, feathered masks, icy pearls, chiseled remarks and bitchy mots all in one glamorous setting....An astonishing book, at once hilarious and touching."J. D. McClatchy

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Acerca del autor

James McCourt is the author of Mawrdew Czgowchwz, Time Remaining, Delancey’s Way, Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey and Queer Street. He has contributed to the Yale Review, The New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He lives in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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Editorial
WW Norton & Co
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393050513
ISBN 13 
9780393050516
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
592
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9780393326406: Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985

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