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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
0520204158 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
Physical Description
xii, 321 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) index.
Contents
Introduction: San Francisco was a wide-open town
History/ José 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
4. 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
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