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2005.
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"How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual 'immigrant' group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society, and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself. From the way camp, irony, and the gay aesthetic have become part and parcel of our national sensibility to the undeniable effect gay cognoscenti have had on film, literature, music, and television, Cathy Crimmins examines how gay...
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[1989]
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No one is brought up to be gay. Lacking the formal support systems—families, schools, churches—gay men rely on their folklore in interacting with one another and to relieve the pressures of belonging to a stigmatized group. Jokes and other forms of humor, language, and personal experience narratives help gay men to identify and communicate with one another—even in straight settings.
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[1999]
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There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. This book provides an interdisciplinary...
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