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| | Amazon.com: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940: Books: George Chauncey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Gay New York reconstructs prewar gay life through police records, newspapers, oral histories, the papers of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, diaries, medical records, and other fascinating primary texts. |
 | | To be gay during this period meant knowing how to behave in ways that signify homosexuality to other gay men (and those interested in affairs with gay men) while having that behavior appear ambiguous enough to those of ill will to avoid censure or worse. |
 | | Gay life in New York always had to operate underground, beyond both the official and unofficial radars of society because of the possibility of harassment, arrest and sometimes long prison terms. |
| www.amazon.com /Gay-New-York-Culture-1890-1940/dp/0465026214 (3224 words) |
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