The Gay Metropolis (74 page)

Reagan, governor of,
275
–76

Proposition 6,
276

Campaign for Military Service,
334

Canby, Vincent,
196

Capote, Truman,
70
,
110
,
120
,
172
–75

Carlisle, Kitty,
58

Carmichael, Stokely,
147

Carter, Jimmy,
273

Case, Archie,
276

Catholic Archdiocese of New York,
143

Catholic Church: opposing gay rights,
66
,
143
270,
317

and AIDS,
323
–24

Catholic Legion of Decency,
66
CBS,
67
–68,
270
,
271
–72

“CBS Reports”: “The Homosexuals” documentary,
160
–71

“Gay Power, Gay Politics” documentary,
271
–72

Celluloid Closet, The
(Russo),
284
,
302

censorship: in the fifties,
66
–68

Centers for Disease Control: and AIDS,
297

Central Intelligence Agency,
80
–81

Central Park: cruising in,
84
,
106
,
122
,
147

in the seventies,
214

“Gay In” (1970) at,
216

Chaplin, Charlie,
67
Chaplin, Saul,
194

Charade (club),
215
–16

Chauncey, George,
13
,
67

Cherry Grove, Fire Island: in the forties,
46

in the fifties,
109

in the seventies,
291
–92

Chesley Robert,
293

Chiang Kai-shek,
68

“chickenhawks,”
11

child molestation,
159
,
207

children's books: gay themes in,
144
n

Children's Hour, The
(film),
155

Chow, Michael,
254

Christian right: antigay prejudice of,
272
,
273
,
275
–77,
329

antigay propaganda of,
272

political advances of, in the eighties,
273

oppose gays in the military,
334

Christians for Reagan,
273

Christopher Street,
197
,
200
,
243
–44

City and the Pillar, The
(Vidal),
58
–62,
170
n

Civil Rights Act, 1964,
136

Civil Service Commission,
79

Clark, Blair,
173

Clarke, Lige,
190
,
201
,
202
,
215

Clemons, Walter,
115
–21,
175
–80,
193

Gift, Montgomery,
59
,
89
,
113
–15

Clinton, Bill,
164
,
248
–49,
330
–31,
333
–34,
336
,
337

Stoddard on,
248
–49,
334
–35

1992 election campaign of,
330
–31

pledge to lift ban on gays in the military,
333
,
334
–39

gays in administration of,
337

opposes gay marriage,
337

judicial appointments of,
347
,
358

Cloisters (restaurant),
45

closeted gays,
29
.
See also
coming out;

in the fifties,
107
–15

critique of,
129

in the seventies,
213
–14,
264

in the eighties,
270
–71

in Reagan's circle,
276
–77

Clurman, Harold,
193

CNN,
331

Cockettes,
246
–47

Cock Ring (bar),
244

Cohn, Roy,
75
–78,
96
,
270
,
278

and McCarthy hearings,
75
–76

baited by Vidal,
76
–77

denial of homosexuality,
77
–78

and Studio 54,
254
–55,
257
,
258

and Reagan,
277

and AIDS,
318

Cole, William,
73

Colorado: antigay propositions in,
334

Supreme Court overrules antigay laws of,
344
–45

Colt Studios,
8

Columbia Journalism Review
,
271
,
286

Columbia University: student movement at,
137

recognizes gay student organization,
146

coming out,
xii
–xiii

to parents and family,
xii
,
262
–63

by James Baldwin,
73

by Merle Miller,
226
–28

in the seventies,
226
–28,
250
–51,
260
–63

in black community,
234
–35

by Howard Brown,
250
–51

Coming Out Under Fire
(Bérubé),
28

Comitto, Tony,
191

commercialization of gays,
339
–40

Common Threads
(film),
302

Communists: crusade against, in the fifties,
68
–78,
80
–82

concentration camps: homosexuals in, xv,
289

conservatives:
See also
Republicans

antigay prejudice of, in the eighties,
272
,
273
,
275
–77,
329

antigay platform for 1992 election,
331
–33

and gays in the military,
334
,
336
–37

consumers, gay: corporate exploitation of,
339
–40

Continental Baths,
248
,
258

Copland, Aaron,
17
,
89
,
92
,
183

Cork Club,
104
,
122

Cornell Selectee Index,
30

Coronet
,
82

corporations: antidiscrimination policies at,
270
,
339

exploiting gay market,
339
–40

Cory, Donald Webster.
See
Sagarin, Edward Cory Book Service,
126

Cox, Christopher,
284

Craven, James Braxton,
164

Crawford, Cheryl,
92

Crile, George,
271
,
272

crime: association of homosexuality with, in the fifties,
82
–83

Crist, Judith,
196

Crittenden Board, U.S. Navy,
50

Crossen, Cynthia,
322

Crowley, Mart,
7
,
185
–92

Crowther, Bosley,
155
–56

cruising: in the forties,
8
,
12
–14,
38
,
39
–40

in the fifties,
94
–95,
104
–6,
121
–22

in the sixties,
147

in the seventies,
243

Crumpley, Ronald,
274
–75

Cub Room,
15

Cuckor, George,
37

Cuite, Thomas,
317

cultural subversives, gays as,
169

in the nineties,
332

Curran, Dr. James,
280

Curtis, Charlotte,
173

Daily Mirror
,
79

Daily News
,
19
n

on Stonewall riot,
135
,
201

Dall, John,
59

dance and dancers,
103
–4

Daniels, Jimmy,
41
–42

Darwin, Charles,
xiv

Daughters of Bilitis,
206

Day, Doris,
97

DDI (dideoxyinosine),
324

Deans, Mickey,
180
,
196

Decter, Midge,
225

Defense Department's Personnel Security Research and Education Center,
50

Defense of Marriage Act,
337

DeLarverie, Stormé,
135
,
198
,
200

DeMarco, Felix,
314
–15

D'Emilio, John,
19
,
58
,
79
,
126
,
149

Democratic party: Chicago convention (1968),
48

gays at 1980 convention,
273

gays at 1992 convention,
331

Dennis, Patrick,
35

Dennis, Rev. Walter D.,
143

Denton, Herb,
213

Der Kreis/Le Cercle
,
16

“Die-Ins”: by ACT UP,
322

Dietrich, Marlene,
96

Dignity,
323
–24

discotheques: in the sixties,
180
–81

in the seventies,
253
–259,
291
–92

in the eighties,
283

discrimination, antigay:
See also
prejudice against gays;

in WWII army,
27
–38

ACLU takes on federal (1960s),
140

corporate policy against,
270
,
339

NYC bans,
317
–18

Clinton asserts ban on

federal,
337

Divided Path, The
,
125

domestic partners,
340

Donahue, Phil,
207
–8

Donovan, John,
144
n

Don't Look Back
(documentary),
152

Doty, Robert,
156
–57

Dougherty, Phil,
286
n

Dowd, Maureen,
299
–300

Dowling, Jack,
8
,
15
,
83
,
106
,
107
,
121
–22

drag queens: and Stonewall riot,
198
–201,
205

and gay political activism,
263

drag shows: in WWII military,
37
–38

in Harlem,
40
–41

drug culture: of the sixties,
144
–45,
89
,
188
–89n

of the seventies,
244
,
246
,
256
,
257
,
258

Drury, Allen,
155

Duberman, Martin,
65
,
100
,
198
,
322

Du Bois, W.E.B.,
139

Dugas, Gaetan,
296
–97

Dulles, Allen W.,
80
n

Dunlap, David,
164

Dunne, Dominick,
186
,
187

Dunphy, Jack,
174

Dylan, Bob,
135
,
136
,
150
,
152
,
264

Ebb, Fred,
210
–11

Ebert, Roger,
151

Edwards, Anne,
193

effeminacy,
32
,
131
,
143
,
155

Eighth Street Bar,
107

eighties, the,
269
–325

rising conflict between gays and antigay activists,
269
–72

election of Reagan,
272
–74,
275
–77

violent attacks on gays,
274
–75

early coverage of AIDS,
278
–81

effect of AIDS in,
278
–318

NYC bans antigay discrimination,
317
–18

Bowers
v.
Hardwick
,
319
–20

ACT UP in,
320
–25

8709 (bathhouse),
300
–301

Einstein, Albert, xv

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
38
,
47
,
80
,
81
,
276
,
285

Electric Circus (club),
201
–2

electric shock treatment,
230

Ellison, Ralph,
101

Elphant, Jules,
46
,
51
–52

Emanuel, Rham,
331

Empire State Building,
311

entrapment:
See also
police harassment;

in the fifties,
71
,
83
–84,
111

in the sixties,
145
–46

Episcopal Diocese of New York,
143

Epstein, Brian,
150
–51

Epstein, Joseph,
xi
,
223
–25,
226
,
228
–29

Epstein, Rob,
302

Equal Rights, Special Rights
(film),
272

Ertegün, Ahmet,
246
,
255

Esquire
,
148
,
208
,
209
,
253
,
260

Etheridge, Melissa,
334

Evans, Arthur,
95
,
225

Evans, Oliver,
95

Everhard (bath),
119
–20

Faggots
(Kramer),
290
–92,
293
,
298

Fairchild, John,
269

“fairies,” 12–13

Falwell, Jerry,
273

Fauci, Anthony,
324

Feldman, Mark,
311

Ferro, Robert,
284

Fielding, Fred,
278

Fierstein, Harvey,
241

fifties, the,
65
–131

conformity during,
66
–68

crusade against Communists and homosexuals during,
68
–82