Contacts desired : gay and lesbian communications and community, 1940s-1970s / Martin Meeker.
Meeker, Martin.
2006
HQ76.25 .M44 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Contacts desired : gay and lesbian communications and community, 1940s-1970s / Martin Meeker.
Author Meeker, Martin.
ISBN 9780226517353 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226517357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226517346 (alk. paper)
0226517349 (alk. paper)
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Language English
Description xviii, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HQ76.25 .M44 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.76/6/0904
Summary Whether born or made, homosexuals generally are not born into gay families, nor are they socialized to be gay by their peers or schools. How then do people become aware of homosexuality and, in some cases, integrate into gay communities? The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails searching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history. Meeker argues that over the course of the twentieth century, a series of important innovations occurred in the networks that linked individuals to a larger social knowledge of homosexuality. In the process, he reveals how homosexuals played a crucial role in transforming the very structure of communications and urban communities since the postwar era.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: The sexual communication network as an agent of change
Establishing a homosexual headquarters
Organizing lesbian connections
Building the lesbian grapevine
Publicizing the gay life
Assembling a lavender Baedeker
Shaping an "amazon network"
Epilogue: The study of sexuality in the Internet age.

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