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[George Chauncey] too wants to rescue his masked men from the obscurity of the historical closet. The difference is that his sources allow him to stack up a weightier analysis of subjectivity and identity, or more accurately, subjectivities and identities. Had he relied solely on police records of bath house raids or court records of sodomy trials, he would likely have come up with a much gloomier image of the gay world. His sources include unpublished memoirs, journals, and underground publications; unofficial city guides; contemporary studies of gay men; diaries and letters of the obscure and the famous (such as Tennessee Williams). Of course, the contrast between Chauncey's treasure trove and [Mary E. Odem] and [Ruth M. Alexander]'s institutional records springs from the wide class range of men who dipped in and out of the gay world: that Chauncey's acknowledgements include his thanks to several literary executors speaks volumes. But Chauncey's rich sources are not simply a windfall, since he generated his own in the form of over 75 interviews with gay men and lawyers who handled \"gay-related cases.\" \"Early in my research it became clear that oral histories would be the single most important source of evidence concerning the internal working of the gay world,\" he comments in his useful \"Note on Sources.\" (370) Indeed, he would not have come up with his informal taxonomy of fairies, wolves, pansies, trade (rough and otherwise), normals, queers and perverts had he not heard gay men use such terms themselves. At several points in the book (particularly when he recounts the sexual culture of YMCA'S, cafeterias, and bath houses) his interviewees may prompt him to drift into \"a poetics of nostalgia.\"(f.23) Yet Chauncey is well aware that \"no source is 'unfiltered',\" including oral testimony. (370) The one which has received the most attention is George Chauncey's Gay New York. The publicity (and sales) it has garnered are unquestionably deserved. This is an extremely ambitious work, especially since it is a first book, written originally as a dissertation under the direction of Nancy Cott. If Chauncey's supervisor put \"passionlessness\" on the historical map, he has colourfully documented and celebrated the opposite -- namely the sexual passions that drove men to create a \"gay world\" in late-19th to mid-20th-century New York. Although the stuffy parlour existence of Victorian ladies suffering from the vapours seems oceans away from the Bowery saloons where painted \"fairies\" and tattooed sailors consorted, Chauncey makes brilliant bridges between ground-breaking feminist historiography and au courant queer theory. For instance, he draws directly on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet while rejecting her central metaphor: pre-Stonewall gay men were not closeted, he contests, but were more like \"masked\" men who lived \"double-lives.\"(f.2) For Chauncey, the closet image misses the complex strategies that men devised to be both visible (to each other) and invisible (to hostile outsiders). Like \"separate spheres,\" an outmoded term which inaccurately defined women as creatures cocooned from \"the public,\" the closet is a metaphor which wrongly implies that gay men existed in a kind of cryogenic state prior to coming out en masse in the 1970s. Chauncey's project is to put that image to rest: not only were there sexually-active gay men prior to the modern gay liberation movement, but there were numerous sites in the early metropolis where like-inclined men concocted a vibrant subculture of sex and sociability.

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