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Author Stein, Marc, author.

Title City of sisterly and brotherly loves : lesbian and gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 / Marc Stein
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2004]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 461 pages) : illustrations
Contents Your place or mine? : residential zones in the "city of neighborhoods" -- "No-man's land" : commercial districts in the "Quaker city" -- The death and life of public space in the "private city" -- "The most fabulous faggot in the land" -- The "objectionable" Walt Whitman bridge -- Rizzo's raiders and beaten beats -- "Come out! Come out! Wherever your are!" : 1960 -- "Earnestly seeking respectability" : 1960-1963 -- "News for 'queers' and fiction for 'perverts'" : 1963-1967 -- "The masculine-feminine mystique" : 1967-1969 -- "Turning points" : 1969-1970 -- Gay liberation in the "birthplace of the nation" : 1970-1971 -- Radicalesbian feminism in "Fillydykia" : 1971-1972
Summary Marc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco have for too long
Notes Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000, in series: Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-441) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Gay men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
Lesbians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
Gay liberation movement -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Gay liberation movement.
Gay men.
Lesbians.
Social conditions.
Homoseksuelen.
Lesbiennes.
Homobeweging.
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781439911761
1439911762