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Wide-open town [electronic resource] : a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 / Nan Alamilla Boyd.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xii, 321 p., [16] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0664/0979461 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.U52 S2633 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: San Francisco was a wide-open town -- History/ José Sarria -- Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s -- Oral history/ Reba Hudson -- Lesbian space, lesbian territory: San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954 -- Oral history/ Joe Baron -- Policing queers in the 1940s and 1950s: harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars -- Oral history/ Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- 4. A queer ladder of social mobility : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960 -- Oral history/ George Mendenhall -- Queer cooperation and resistance: a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s -- Conclusion : marketing a queer San Francisco -- Appendix A: map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965 -- Appendix B: List of interviewees -- Notes.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-302) index.

Introduction: San Francisco was a wide-open town -- History/ José Sarria -- Transgender and gay male cultures from the 1890s through the 1960s -- Oral history/ Reba Hudson -- Lesbian space, lesbian territory: San Francisco's North Beach district, 1933-1954 -- Oral history/ Joe Baron -- Policing queers in the 1940s and 1950s: harassment, prosecution, and the legal defense of gay bars -- Oral history/ Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- 4. A queer ladder of social mobility : San Francisco's homophile movements, 1953-1960 -- Oral history/ George Mendenhall -- Queer cooperation and resistance: a gay and lesbian movement comes together in the 1960s -- Conclusion : marketing a queer San Francisco -- Appendix A: map of North Beach queer bars and restaurants, 1933-1965 -- Appendix B: List of interviewees -- Notes.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.