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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Atkins, Gary, 1949- Gay Seattle. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2013 (DLC) 2013002232 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Atkins |
ISBN: | 9780295800998 0295800992 |
OCLC Number: | 1053482109 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | pt. 1. Imagining an Exile -- Prologue: From Exile to Belonging -- 1. The Law: Sodomy on the Mudflat -- 2. Mental Health: The Psychiatric Pick -- pt. 2. Creating Refuges -- 3. New Saloons and Vaudeville -- 4. Stirrings of Resistance -- 5. Is Dance the Enemy? -- 6. Crossing Over: Challenging the Police -- pt. 3. Claiming a Civic Life -- 7. Robert's Rules and Gay Liberation -- 8. Chautauquas of Feminism and Lesbianism -- 9. Pulpits for Healing -- 10. At the Dance: A New Leg -- 11. Confronting a Police Crackdown -- 12. Insiders at City Hall: The Rhetoric of Privacy -- 13. At the Capitol: Limited Conversation -- 14. Inititative Thirteen: Coming Together, Learning to Persuade -- 15. On Broadway: Creating Markets and Parades -- 16. On Catholic Hill: The Clash of Dogma and Ministry -- 17. At the Hospital: A Plague Arrives -- 18. Becoming Compassion -- 19. Cal's Conscience -- Epilogue: On the Hill. |
Responsibility: | Gary L. Atkins, with a new introduction by the author. |
Abstract:
Traces the evolution of Seattle's gay community from 1893, when the state first passed legislation making homosexuality a crime. Gary Atkins shows through a century of stories how gays and lesbians have sought to achieve a sense of belonging in Seattle.
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