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Stuart Timmons
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The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement  (1990)
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians
(2006) with
Lillian
Faderman
-- Winner 2006 Lambda Literary Award
for
Arts and Culture; Co-Winner 2006 Lambda Literary Award
for
Lesbian Nonfiction
The exhortation to "Go West!" has always had a strong hold on
the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people
who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has
offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most
influential gay cultures in the world.
Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs
and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s
unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American
cross-gendered "two spirits" to cross-dressing frontier women in search of
their fortunes; from the bohemian freedom of early Hollywood to the explosion
of gay life during World War II to the underground radicalism sparked by the
1950s blacklist; from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay
marketing in the 1990s. Faderman and Timmons show how geography, economic
opportunity, and a constant influx of new people created a city that was more
compatible to gay life than any other in America. Combining broad historical
scope with deftly wrought stories of real people, from the Hollywood sound
stage to the barrio, Gay L.A. is American social history at its best.
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