{"product_id":"contacts-desired-gay-and-lesbian-communications-and-community-1940s1970s-9780226517353","title":"Contacts Desired  Gay and Lesbian Communications","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400046518615,"sku":"9780226517353","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226517353.jpg?v=1730469546","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contacts-desired-gay-and-lesbian-communications-and-community-1940s1970s-9780226517353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}