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Subject(s)

• Homosexuality—Washington (D.C.)—History [Browse]
• Gay men—Washington (D.C.)—History [Browse]
• Lesbians—Washington (D.C.)—History [Browse]
• Gay people—Washington (D.C.)—Interviews [Browse]
• Gay people—Washington (D.C.)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Black people—Race identity—United States—History [Browse]
• White people—Race identity—United States—History [Browse]
• Gender identity—United States—History [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Interviews [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Contents

• The geography of same-sex desire : cruising men in Washington in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• "Sentiments expressed here would be misconstrued by others" : the same-sex sexual lives of Washington's black elite in the early twentieth century
• Race, class, gender, and the social landscape of the capital's gay communities during and after World War II
• The policing of same-sex desire in postwar Washington
• LGBT movements in the capital in the mid to late twentieth century : three historic moments
• Epilogue : "in Tyra's memory"
• Appendix : list of narrators.

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ISBN

• 9780415921725 (hardback)
• 0415921724 (hardback)
• 9780415735292 (paperback)
• 0415735297 (paperback)

LCCN

2014000873

OCLC

369140942

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