Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities
by Julie Abraham
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From the destruction of Sodom to the selling of Gay Street, urban life and homosexuality have been made inseparable in Western culture. Abraham looks at the evolution of this symbiotic relationship over the past two centuries, tracing how homosexuals have become model citizens of the modern city and avatars of the urban.Tags
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Julie Abraham is professor of LGBT studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities (Minnesota, 2008).
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- Original publication date
- 2009
- Epigraph
- I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly love of comrades. -- Walt Whitman, "For You, O Democracy"
- Dedication
- For Hazel Adeline Hannaford (1903-1973) who rarely left Adelaide
For Simon Joseph Abraham (1900-1973) who traveled from Gray Street to Lebanon and back again
To New York City where I have found my home - First words
- Homosexuals and cities even share a name.
- Blurbers
- D'Emilio, John
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 809.93352664
- Canonical LCC
- PS169.H65
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 809.93352664 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Literature displaying specific features, miscellaneous writings Literature displaying other aspects Literature dealing with specific themes and subjects Humanity Literature about types of people
- LCC
- PS169 .H65 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Treatment of special subjects, classes
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English, German
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