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Source: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

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 Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.

Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)	Aubrey Beardsley (August 21, 1872 – March 16, 1898)	Allan Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007)	Alan Bray (October 13, 1948 - November 25, 2001)	Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)	Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956)	Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999)	Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)
Russell Cheney (1881 - July 12 , 1945)	Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946)	John D'Emilio (born September 21, 1948)	Charles Demuth (November 8, 1883 – October 23, 1935)	Alice Dunbar-Nelson (July 19, 1875 - September 18, 1935)	Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1913 - September 27, 2002)	Andrew Holleran aka Eric Garber (born January 1, 1944)	Henry Gerber (June 29, 1892 - December 31, 1972)
André Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951)	Charles Griffes (September 17, 1884 - April 8, 1920)	Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943)	Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 – May 14, 1935)	Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)	Laud Humphreys (October 16, 1930 - August 23, 1988)	Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989)	Mabel Dodge Luhan (February 26, 1879 – August 13, 1962)
F.O. Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 - April 1, 1950)	Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)	Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978)	Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940)	Blair Niles (1880 - April 13, 1959)	Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)	Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922)	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009)
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937)	Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)	Edward Prime-Stevenson (July 23, 1858 - July 23, 1942)	Samuel M. Steward aka Phil Andros (July 23, 1909 – December 31, 1993)	John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)	Wallace Thurman (August 16, 1902 - December 22, 1934)	Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)	Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964)
Donald Vining (June 20, 1917 - January 24, 1998)	Glenway Wescott (April 11, 1901 - February 22, 1987)	Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)	Emlyn Williams (November 26, 1905 – September 25, 1987)