Prof. Rabinowitz’s In-Class Questions
- How are gay enclaves different or similar to ethnic enclaves?
- Is New York distinctive (in terms of the gay enclave)? Offer some reasons from the course texts like Chauncey’s Gay New York or some of the discussion from class.
Click through for details on getting Chauncey’s book and links to articles and digitized archival collections!
A copy of George Chauncey’s Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of Gay Male World, 1890-1940 can be found in the Shared class GDrive Folder > Bonus Readings.
The New York Times Style Magazine: Four Geniuses, Gone to AIDS, as They Might Be Today (April 19, 2018): “The epidemic didn’t just deprive us of millions of lives — it deprived us of decades of potential masterpieces of fashion, art, design, theater and dance. Here, we imagine Keith Haring, Tina Chow, Alvin Ailey and Perry Ellis as they might have been.”
New Yorker: It’s a New Day in the Gayborhood (August 8, 2014): “Gays and lesbians congregated mostly out of self-protection … but gradually established rich social, business, and political networks that became draws in themselves, giving rise to such fixtures as the Castro in San Francisco, Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., the South End in Boston, and Boystown in Chicago. These neighborhoods shared a few defining characteristics: known geographical boundaries, a concentration of gay residents who celebrated gay culture, and clusters of gay-friendly and gay-owned businesses.”
NYMag: “The Original Donald Trump” (April 29, 2018) – A new article written about Roy Cohn, a New York attorney who worked for Joseph McCarthy and then Donald Trump. Cohn died of AIDS in 1986.
The LGBT Community Center National History Archives: The LGBT Community Center National History Archive serves to preserve the history of our community and its rich heritage. Archives cover a range of materials including Photography, Correspondence, News Clipping, Radio Soundbytes, Video Broadcasts, Personal Journals.
Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal: Explore New York’s past through nearly 190,000 objects from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York.
New York Historical Society Digital Archives: This site presents selections from the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library’s holdings, featuring highlights from the collections of paintings, drawings, photographs, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and other materials that reveal the depth and breadth of over two centuries of collecting.
