By George Chauncey
Homosexual manhattan brilliantly shatters the parable that prior to the Nineteen Sixties homosexual existence existed in simple terms within the closet, the place homosexual males have been remoted, invisible, and self-hating. in keeping with years of study and entry to a wealthy trove of diaries, felony files, and different unpublished records, this publication is an engaging portrait of a homosexual international that isn't speculated to have existed.
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It is not surprising that the Bowery was the center of the city's bestknown sites of homosexual rendezvous at the turn of the century, for it was a center of other "commercialized vice" as well. Since early in the nineteenth century the Bowery, a wide boulevard cutting diagonally through the center of Manhattan's' Lower East Side, had been the epicenter of a distinct working-class public culture, with its own codes of behavior, dress, and public sociability. When Italians, Jews, and other new immigrant groups replaced thc Irish.
The core institutions of the gay subculture were a number of Lower East Side saloons, a few of them famous among slummers as "resorts" but most of them not on the shImmers' map. The role of the saloons is hardly surprising, since they were central to the social life of most working-class men, although their precise character varied among immigrant and other cultural groups. Located on every block in some tenement districts, saloons served as informal labor exchanges, where men could learn of jobs and union activities.
The term gay began to catch on in the 1930s, and its primacy was consolidated during the war. By the late 1940s, younger gay men were chastising older men who still used queer, which the younger men now regarded as demeaning. As Will Finch, who came out into the gay world of limes Square in the 1930s, noted in his diary in 1951, "The word 'queer' is becoming [or coming to be regarded asl more and more derogatory and lislless and less lIsed by hU9t1ers and trade and the homosexual, especially the younger ones, and the tefm 'gay' [is] taking its place.