Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men, 1885-1967

Type

Book

Authors

Porter ( Kevin )

Weeks ( Jeffrey )

ISBN 10

0415009448

ISBN 13

9780415009447

Tags

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, History, Science, Men, Gay & Lesbian, Gay & Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Bibliographies & Indexes

Description

These interviews provide a series of overlapping and complementary portraits, giving a vivid impression of male homosexual life in the earlier part of this century as recalled in later life by active participants. They are a unique source for a crucial period when the documentary evidence is limited either to the accounts of notorious scandals or the memoirs and biographies of literary and society homosexuals. The interviews are with ordinary people, from a variety of backgrounds and with differing political and social attitudes. Their memories and experiences give us exceptional insights into how homosexual men made sense of their needs and desires, and fashioned for themselves manageable personal and social identities. - from Amzon

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