Using newspaper accounts from a wide variety of mainstream and underground publications, the archives of reform organizations, police and court records, popular cartoons and caricatures, guidebooks, and maps, Chauncey offers a rich and textured account of urban gay life. It combined social, political, and cultural history, and in it Chauncey argues that early twentieth century New York had a thriving, open gay culture. His book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1930 (1994) was published to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellions. From 1991 to 2006, he taught in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, rising from assistant professor to full professor of history. (1989) in history from Yale University, where he studied with Nancy Cott and David Montgomery.
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