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Title Queer sites : gay urban histories since 1600 / edited by David Higgs
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations
Contents Paris / Michael D. Sibalis -- Moscow / Dan Healey -- Amsterdam / Gert Hekma -- London / Randolph Trumbach -- Lisbon / David Higgs -- Rio de Janeiro / David Higgs -- San Francisco / Les Wright
Summary There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism. By concentrating the importance of the c
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-208) and index
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Subject Gay men -- History
Gay men -- Social life and customs
City and town life -- History
Public spaces -- History
Urban parks -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
City and town life
Gay men
Gay men -- Social life and customs
Public spaces
Urban parks
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Higgs, David, 1939-
LC no. 98035022
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