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George Chauncey
George Chauncey is a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
(updated edition, 2019). He is finishing a book on gay male life in the segregated neighborhoods of postwar New York.
Lucy Jones
The Forgotten History of Gay Entrapment
Routine arrests were the linchpin of a social system intended to humiliate LGBTQ people.
George Chauncey
June 25, 2019