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Wide-open town a history of queer San Francisco to 1965
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Title
Wide-open town [electronic resource] : a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 / Nan Alamilla Boyd.
ISBN
9780520938748
0520204158 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520204157
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 321 p., [16] p. of plates :) : maps ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement II.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive US Regional Studies, West Supplement II.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) index.
Contents
Introduction : San Francisco was a wide-open town
History / Jose Sarria
Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s
Oral history / Reba Hudson
Lesbian space, lesbian territory : San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954
Oral history / Joe Baron
Policing queers in the 1940s and 1950s : harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars
Oral history / Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon
A queer ladder of social mobility : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960
Oral history / George Mendenhall
Queer cooperation and resistance : a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s
Conclusion : marketing a queer San Francisco
Appendix A. Map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965
Appendix B. List of interviewees
Notes.
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