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For the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the world's most influential gay cultures. Drawing upon untouched archives and over 200 new interviews, Authors Faderman and 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 sparked by the 1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America.--From publisher description.… (plus d'informations)
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Los Angeles [was] a city of heretics, ... a city of refugees from [the rest of ] America. [Their] banishment was partly dreamed and partly real. -- Frank E. Fenton, A Place in the Sun, 1942
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For Phyllis - who makes everything possible LF For Jim Kepner, witness, activist, archivist, and friend ST And in memory of those Angelenos we have recently lost: Betty Berzon, Vern Bullough, Frankie Hucklenbroich, Gavin Lambert, Brian Miller, William Moritz, Johnny Nojima, Jean O'Leary, Savina Teubal, Brenda Weathers
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Years before autobiographical novelist John Rechy presented gay Los Angeles as a "City of Night," he witnessed a small homosexual riot.
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But in Los Angeles these transformations have occurred on a huge scale; and the gay consciousness and lifestyles that have developed there have had tremendous influence on how gay life is lived everywhere.
For the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the world's most influential gay cultures. Drawing upon untouched archives and over 200 new interviews, Authors Faderman and 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 sparked by the 1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more compatible to gay life than any other in America.--From publisher description.
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