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Mr. Chauncey was born in the United States in 1954.
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Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.
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Mr. Chauncey was born in the United States in 1954.
George Chauncey received his Bachelor of Arts (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1989) in history from Yale University, where he studied with Nancy Cott and David Montgomery.
From 1991 to 2006, Mr. Chauncey taught in the Department of History at the University of Chicago, rising from assistant professor to full professor of history. In 2006, he joined the Yale faculty.
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. It combined social, political, and cultural history, and in it George Chauncey argues that early twentieth century New York had a thriving, open gay culture.
Mr. Chauncey wrote an historical defense of gay marriage.He is currently finishing a history of gay New York from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
George Chauncey is one of the most prominent figures in litarature. His success is mainly associated woth his book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. It is considered not only a valuable contribution to literature on the experiences of gays in modern society, but an important book on American social history.
Of particular interest in Mr. Chauncey’s book is his discussion of the categorization of men based on their sexual preferences. While modern societal laws identify men as either homosexual or heterosexual, masculine men who engaged in sexual activity with other men were not necessarily considered gay before Prohibition. In fact, they were not considered at all abnormal. Therefore, they could choose their sex partners without being spurned by society. However, when anti-gay laws were established in the 1930s, gay men retreated, hiding their sexuality from the public, and special forces were formed to police areas where gays might congregate, thus creating an underground culture.
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George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in several major gay rights cases, and he was the organizer and lead author of the Historians' Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which weighed heavily in the Supreme Court's landmark decision overturning the nation's remaining sodomy laws. In that brief, Chauncey argued for the historical specificity of understandings of sodomy, challenging the reasoning in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) that antisodomy laws were an enduring feature of the American legal system.
