To read this book is to glimpse gay culture in its first morning. .
. . It offers a comprehensive and poignant overview of a very
special moment in gay culture. Read it, and if you're still too
macho to weep, or too insufficiently radical/feminist to scream, at
least shed a tear for lost innocence."
--"The Advocate"
The influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature,
theater, poetry, dance, music, and the arts is unmeasurable. In the
era before AIDS, gay and lesbian culture had a defining, if
unrecognized, influence on American life, an influence that is only
now being acknowledged.
This reissue of the classic anthology, "Lavender Culture,"
serves as a provocative, dynamic, and wide-ranging reminder of
American gay and lesbian culture in the days before the status of
gay people received widespread attention in the media, religion,
and politics, before Newsweek saw it fit to feature a cover story
on LESBIANS, and before gays and lesbians took center stage in
America's cultural landscape.
Here we find the young, assertive voices of such activists,
authors, and artists as Rita Mae Brown, Barbara Grier, John
Stoltenberg, Julia Penelope, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Kopkind, Jane
Rule, Arthur Bell, Charlotte Bunche, and dozens more. Including
essays on such diverse subjects as gay bath houses, the gay male
image in classical ballet, images of gays in rock music, Judy
Garland, lesbian humor, sports and machismo, the growing business
of women's music, and the Cleveland bar scene in the 1940s,
Lavender Culture, with new introductory essays by the editors and
Cindy Patton, offers a panoply of gay and lesbian life, tracing the
current influence and visibility of gay and lesbianculture back to
its origins.
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