A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a saga of struggle and triumph that was instantly recognized as one of the most authoritative works of its kind. Now, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Charles Kaiser brings this decade-by-decade account of the rise and acceptance of gay life and identity since 1940 into the twenty-first century.
The Gay Metropolis is a story of fusion. By examining transformations in the world of American film, music, and tv, alongside the gains and reversals in the American court system, Kaiser paints a vivid portrait of this astounding era. In a new final chapter for this edition, “The Twenty-First Century,” he draws a line from Queer as Folk to Moonlight, each with new context as their success is framed by a recounting of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s final landmark gay rights decisions, United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. Kaiser’s own personal anecdotes are woven in throughout—including a carnal conga line on Christopher Street after the New York Blackout that produced a scene out of Fellini Satyricon.
With a dazzling cast of characters—from Leonard Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, and John F. Kennedy to Ellen DeGeneres and RuPaul—this is a vital telling of American history.
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