Read The Gay Metropolis Online
Authors: Charles Kaiser
York, Michael.
Travelling Player.
London: Headline, 1991.
Young, Allen.
Gay Sunshine Interview
with Allen Ginsberg. Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox, 1974.
Zadan, Craig,
Sondheim & Co.,
2d edition, updated. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.
Aarons, Roy,
104
â6,
144
â45,
213
Abrams, Robert,
220
,
221
,
256
,
264
â65
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power),
109
,
269
,
306
,
320
â25,
329
“Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual, The” (Hooker),
124
adolescents, gay: behavior of,
127
AIDS and,
315
organizations for,
329
school for,
330
advertisements: gay, in straight media,
213
window,
271
mainstream, in gay magazines,
339
â40
Advise and Consent
(film),
155
Advocate
(Los Angeles)
149
n,
171
â72,
288
AIDS: early coverage of,
278
â85
New York Times
coverage of,
279
â81,
286
â87,
307
estimates of rate of infection,
283
,
284
â85
drug therapy for,
284
,
318
,
324
â25
gay activism and,
284
,
290
â92,
320
â25
toll of,
284
,
300
,
301
,
302
â6,
329
,
330
government expenditures on,
285
,
300
Shilts reports on,
288
â90
Kramer activated by,
290
â94
gay media coverage of,
292
â93
Krim and,
296
theories on origin of,
296
â97
quilt project,
302
isolation of virus,
302
â3
survivor's guilt and,
307
immunity to,
307
lack of publicity on,
307
â8
New York Times Magazine
on,
308
â9
Koop and education on,
309
â10
ACT UP and,
320
â25
Catholic Church and,
323
â24
Republicans exploit as campaign issue,
332
advances in combination drug therapy for,
343
contributing to sense of gay community,
329
â30,
343
~44
Albee, Edward,
7
,
89
,
165
,
166
,
175
,
180
n
Alfred, Randy,
271
Allen, Woody,
296
Alsop, Joseph,
80
â82
Altman, Lawrence K.,
279
â81,
343
American Civil Liberties Union,
140
,
221
American Composers League,
17
American Express,
339
American Family, An
(TV documentary),
208
â9
American Field Service,
34
â35
American Psychiatric Association:
See also
psychiatrists on homosexuality;
Military Mobilization Committee,
28
â29
reverses “illness” definition of homosexuality,
235
â40
American Psychoanalytic Association,
318
American Red Cross,
310
Amster, James,
171
anal intercourse: and AIDS,
309
,
309
n,
310
,
313
Andersson, Jon,
43
And the Band Played On
(Shilts),
288
â90
Annan, Lord,
212
Answered Prayers
(Capote),
110
,
175
Anthony, Robert J.,
323
â24
Army, U.S.
See
military, U.S.
Arnaz, Desi, Jr.,
68
Arthur (club),
180
â81,
180
n,
196
Artie's (bar),
104
artistic community: in the fifties,
88
â104
in the sixties,
165
Atcheson, James (pseudonym),
16
â17,
37
,
57
Atkinson, Brooks,
94
Auden, W. H., ii,
43
,
99
,
123
,
210
Auletta, Ken,
76
Bacall, Lauren,
174
Bacevich, A. J.,
336
â37
Bachardy, Don,
123
Baker, Russell,
173
Balanchine, George,
42
Baldwin, Alec,
257
Baldwin, James,
xi
,
3
,
73
,
107
,
145
,
173
Bali (bar),
105
Bankhead, William Brockman,
17
Barkley, Alben,
19
Barnes, Clive,
187
bars: banning gays from,
19
,
83
â84
New Jersey ends ban on gays in,
145
bars, gay: in the forties,
8
,
13
,
14
,
15
in the fifties,
82
â83,
104
â7,
121
â22
in the sixties,
157
Stonewall Inn,
197
â202
in the seventies,
240
â48
bars, lesbian: in the fifties,
86
Bartolomi, David,
313
â14
baths: in the forties,
41
in the fifties,
119
â20
and AIDS epidemic,
289
â90,
294
,
297
,
300
â301,
308
Beame, Abraham,
250
n
Beaton, Cecil,
35
Beatty, Warren,
296
Bell, Arthur,
216
n
Benecke, Marc,
256
Bennett, Michael,
318
Bennett, William,
272
Benton, Bill,
74
â75
Berger, Meyer,
21
Berkeley student movement,
136
â37
Berlin, Germany:
See also
Weimar Germany;
gay life in,
210
brothels in,
19
n.
Berlin, Irving,
37
Berlin Stories
(Isherwood),
61
,
209
â10
Bernheimer, Max,
25
Bernstein, Felicia,
91
,
183
â84,
214
Bernstein, Leonard,
65
,
89
,
107
,
112
,
182
â84,
188
,
196
relations with Copland,
17
and the creation of
West Side Story
,
89
â94
bisexuality of,
214
Berry, Chuck,
135
Bérubé, Allan,
28
,
29
,
33
,
47
,
48
Bible: on homosexuality,
xiii
,
19
,
338
â39
Bigelow, Otis,
5
â14,
25
,
49
,
54
,
103
Billings, Lemoyne,
14
â15
Billings, Robert J.,
273
Billingsley, Sherman,
15
Bingham, Jonathan,
220
Bird Circuit,
106
â7
bisexuality,
209
â11,
213
,
217
â21
in the fifties,
95
Studio 54
and,
253
â55
Black, Roger,
339
Black Cat Bar, Los Angeles,
171
blackmail: and gays as security risks,
69
,
72
,
79
,
82
,
237
in the fifties,
84
in the sixties,
146
Victim
critiques,
152
â55
Blackmun, Justice Harry,
319
â20
blacks,
101
civil rights movement for,
xii
âxiii,
135
,
136
,
145
,
147
,
335
â46
gay life in Harlem,
40
â41,
122
gays emulating tactics of radicals,
147
,
147
nâ148n
lesbians,
231
â35
civil rights movement for,
335
,
346
integration in military,
335
â36
Blair, James (pseudonym),
283
Blick, Roy E.,
71
blood supply: and AIDS epidemic,
289
,
310
Blue Parrot (bar),
106
Bolan, Tom,
277
Bond, Helen Judy,
57
Bon Soir (bar),
42
Book Seller,
126
Boswell, John,
340
â41
Bourscheidt, Randy,
200
Bowers
v.
Hardwick
,
319
â20
Bowles, Paul,
17
Boy Bar,
295
Boys in the Band, The
(Crowley),
7
,
185
â92,
229
film of,
190
suburban straight casts for,
190
â91
Bramson, Harold,
145
Brandeis, Justice Louis,
319
â20
Braun, Judge Arthur,
145
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(Capote),
172
Brennan, Justice William J., Jr.,
252
,
319
Brewster, R. Owen,
18
Bristol-Myers,
324
â25
Brody, Jane,
229
â31
Bronx United Gays (BUG),
220
Brown, Francis,
179
Brown, Howard,
250
â51
Brown, Jerry,
276
Brown, Willie,
93
Bruce, Lenny,
135
Bryant, Anita,
269
Buckley, Charlie,
220
Buckley, William F., Jr.,
148
Bullitt, William,
18
Burger, Chief Justice Warren,
252
,
319
Burke, Tom,
209
Burroughs, William,
98
â100
Burroughs Wellcome: ACT UP and,
322
Burton, Humphrey,
17
Burton, Patricia,
20
â21
Burton, Philip,
285
Buse, George,
32
Butler, Michael,
95
â96
By Jupiter
(Broadway musical),
16
Cadmus, Paul,
10
,
15
â16,
43
â44,
46
,
54
â55,
89
,
110
,
168
n,
174
,
210
,
211
Caen, Herb,
174
café society,
9
â10
Cage, John,
89
Cain, James M.,
116
California:
See also
San Francisco;