Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: George Chauncey: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Thursday, July 16 2009.

• AT THE END OF THE 1890s, COLUMBIA HALL (BETTER KNOWN AS PARESIS Hall), on the Bowery at Fifth Street, was by all accounts, the "principal resort in New York for degenerates" and well known as much to the public.