In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change

by Neil Miller

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This book, an overview of gay life in the U.S., puts to rest the stereotype that gay and lesbian communities thrive only in large cities. In coast-to-coast travels, the author, former editor of Boston's Gay Community News, met vast numbers of gays and lesbians in a variety of geographic, ethnic, social and cultural settings. The author unexpectedly found that aside from some intolerant communities, small towns accept gays and lesbians--gay farmer couples, for example, or a lesbian miner--in show more community projects and politics. show less

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"With his unique vision and remarkable eye for detail to guide him, Neil Miller journeyed through small towns, farmlands, suburbs, and cities in search of the diversity of gay and lesbian life in America in the late 1980s. His lively and telling profiles reveal lesbians and gay men building communities and families, coming to terms with their religious beliefs, reconciling with their roots, and, for the minorities whom Miller interviewed, coping with racism as well as homophobia. In a time when most of the discussion of gay life in America centers around AIDS, this compassionate and provocative book concentrates on men and women in the process of living their lives." -- Back cover

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Neil Miller teaches journalism at Tufts University and is the award-winning author of five nonfiction books. His most recent work, Kartchner Caverns, won the 2009 Arizona Book Award. Miller lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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LGBTQ+, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Travel
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306.7660973Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, DivorceSexual relationsSexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexualityHomosexualityBiography And HistoryNorth AmericaUnited States
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HQ76.33 .U5 .M55Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenSexual life

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