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Using rare archives, photographs, and over three hundred interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons document the evolution of Los Angeles’ gay culture. The book traces early encounters with Native American “two spirits” and frontier cross‑dressers, the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood, the wartime surge of gay life, and the radicalism born from the 1950s blacklist. It then follows the rise of the 1960s gay liberation movement and the emergence of a distinct gay marketing industry in the 1990s, offering a comprehensive view of LGBTQ history in the City of Angels.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Lillian Faderman
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