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    <body><![CDATA[     Affluent aristocrats cavorted with the pansy proletariat. Flaming fairies, dressed to the nines, freely walked the rough and tumble streets of ethnic ghettos attracting attention to themselves and to their lifestyles. Music, liquor, and spectacle converged and hypnotized a diverse crowd of thou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/959225">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is brilliantly researched, easy (and often titillating) to read, and challenges (indeed, blows out of the water) the theory that there was no gay social organizing prior to Stonewall.  It's kind of a must-read, really, for anyone who wants to say anything about the history of queer visibil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37807156">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[oh man, do I love my queer history! A fascinating view into the gay subculture of turn of the century New York, that really wasn't so 'underground' as we might think. Writing can be a bit dry at times (aka lots of loooong sentences), but the primary sources of pictures, drawings, advertisements and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66432068">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating.  Who would have known that such a vibrant gay culture existed in New York that early in history?  I love that there was a culture before Stonewall, that the closet was not completely shut before that.  Fantastically researched and incredibly readable for such a scholarly work.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i had to read this for a class, and it was awesome. <br/><br/>you wouldn't think he would have a lot to talk about in that time period and yet he does. the scope of his research is staggering and the writing is really engaging. i mean for a crazily researched academic book. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[accessible.  very foucauldian.  i especially liked his discussion of the construction of hetero and homosexuality.  wished he had talked more about the correlation between social anxiety and economic and political change.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book dispells the myth that homosexuality has always been taboo in American culture. It explores gay culture in New York at the turn of the 19th, 20th century and shows how being &quot;gay&quot; or &quot;stright&quot; is a construct. Sailors used to dock in th harbor in NYC and pick up fairies ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4531304">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most important, influential book I've read in my first year of jail, I mean, grad school. By an academic historian but totally accessible. Gay New York didn't start for men in the 1950s, or 40s, or 20s, but the 1890s! Read all about the sordid and revolutionary lives of rough trade, fairies, wol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22624037">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look at twentieth-century New York and its subculture though ultimately I feel it is without a point.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It has been more than ten years since I read the book, and now that I live here, I plan to re-read it soon. The history of Gay life in NYC is unlike anywhere else, and definitely a subject that Gay New Yorkers should take the time to learn. <br/><br/>The book was excellent the first time around, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10869323">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those few books I was assigned in both undergraduate and graduate school courses.  A must read for anyone interested in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1875.The_History_of_Sexuality_An_Introduction_Vintage_" title="The History of Sexuality  An Introduction (Vintage) by Michel Foucault">the history of sexuality</a> or theorizing space and place in the formation of communities. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27457614">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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