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The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story.

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"Martin Meeker's vivid account of the first gay guidebooks, newspapers, and publishing companies and of how early activists worked to change the mass media's representation of gay life provides an innovative new framework for analyzing the early gay movement and helps explain how San Francisco became the promised land to so many lesbians and gay men. This is a revelatory and utterly fascinating book." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York"

Contacts Desired Gay and Lesbian Communications

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226517353, 978-0226517353
      ISBN10: 0226517357
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      Book Synopsis
      The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails scarching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. This book proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story.

      Trade Review
      "Martin Meeker's vivid account of the first gay guidebooks, newspapers, and publishing companies and of how early activists worked to change the mass media's representation of gay life provides an innovative new framework for analyzing the early gay movement and helps explain how San Francisco became the promised land to so many lesbians and gay men. This is a revelatory and utterly fascinating book." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York"

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