@article{321635,
      recid = {321635},
      author = {Meeker, Martin.},
      title = {Contacts desired : gay and lesbian communications and  community, 1940s-1970s /},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      address = {Chicago :},
      pages = {xviii, 321 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/321635},
}