Becoming visible : an illustrated history of lesbian and gay life in twentieth-century America / Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman.

New York : New York Public Library : Penguin Studio, 1998.

xvii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

BEIN 2018 5186: Number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.

"Based on an exhibition curated by Fred Wasserman, Molly McGarry, and Mimi Bowling."

"Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America traces one hundred years of same-sex social worlds and political life in the United States: from the extensive gay worlds that took shape in city streets, bars, and tenements beginning in the early twentieth century through a national coming-out during World War II; the repression of the McCarthy era to the liberating forces of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the gay liberation and lesbian feminist movements; the AIDS crisis, renewed activism in the 1990s; and much more. In text and images, the book celebrates gay and lesbian heritage, illuminates long-invisible worlds, and chronicles a vital aspect of American history."--Jacket.

English

June 01, 2002

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.

History.