How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization: The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World Paperback - 2005
by Crimmins, Cathy
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This title presents a broad, yet incisive look, at how an unusual group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society and the concepts of community, family, sex, and fashion, and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself.
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- Title How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization: The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World
- Author Crimmins, Cathy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York
- Date 2005-06-02
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1585424250.G
- ISBN 9781585424252 / 1585424250
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.44 x 0.69 in (20.83 x 13.82 x 1.75 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Gays in popular culture, Homosexuality - Philosophy
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.766
About Bonita California, United States
Summary
A cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better.
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual "immigrant" group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society and has, in many ways, become mainstream itself. From the way camp, irony, and the gay aesthetic have become part of our national sensibility to the undeniable effect the gay cognoscenti have had on media and the arts, Cathy Crimmins examines how gay men have changed the concepts of community, family, sex, and fashion.
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- Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 121