THEORETICAL POLITICS, LOCAL COMMUNITIES: The Making of U.S. LGBT Historiography

Book Review| October 01 2005 THEORETICAL POLITICS, LOCAL COMMUNITIES: The Making of U.S. LGBT Historiography Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 John D'Emilio Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi + 269 pp. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis New York: Routledge, 1993. xvii + 434 pp. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town Esther Newton Boston: Beacon, 1993. xiii + 378 pp. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 George Chauncey New York: Basic, 1994. xi + 478 pp. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History John Howard Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xxiii + 395 pp. City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia,1945-1972 Marc Stein Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xv + 461 pp. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Peter Boag Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiv + 321 pp. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 Nan Alamilla Boyd Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xii + 321 pp. Marc Stein Marc Stein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 605–625. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-4-605 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Marc Stein; THEORETICAL POLITICS, LOCAL COMMUNITIES: The Making of U.S. LGBT Historiography. GLQ 1 October 2005; 11 (4): 605–625. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-4-605 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Duke University Press2005 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.