QUEER STREET - CL

Beginning with the influx of liberated veterans into downtown New York in the golden age before McCarthyism, 'Queer Street' tells the explosive story of gay culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. McCourt highlights the major events of the period - the landmark eruption at the Stonewall Inn, the AIDS crisis that brought an end to a century of bathhouse culture, the ascendancy of the Christian right, and finally the social acceptance of gays that paradoxically marked the demise of queer culture.