Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall

Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall
ISBN-10
022665611X
ISBN-13
9780226656113
Category
Social Science
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
2019-10-22
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
John Ibson

Description

In Men without Maps, John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps—provided by nearly every engine of social and popular culture—gay men mostly lacked such guides in the years before parades, organizations, and publications for queer persons. Surveying the years from shortly before the war up to the gay rights movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ibson considers male couples, who balanced domestic contentment with exterior repression, as well as single men, whose solitary lives illuminate unexplored aspects of the queer experience. Men without Maps shows how, in spite of the obstacles they faced, midcentury gay men found ways to assemble their lives and senses of self at a time of limited acceptance.

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