{"product_id":"contacts-desired-gay-and-lesbian-communications-and-community-1940s-1970s-paperback","title":"Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s-1970s - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartin Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether one thinks homosexuals are born or made, they generally are not born into gay families, nor are they socialized to be gay by their peers or schools. How then do people become aware of homosexuality and, in some cases, integrate into gay communities? The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails searching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. \u003ci\u003eContacts Desired\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin Meeker here argues that over the course of the twentieth century, a series of important innovations occurred in the networks that linked individuals to a larger social knowledge of homosexuality. He points to three key innovations in particular: the emergence of the homophile movement in the 1950s; the mass media treatments of homosexuals in the late 1950s and early 1960s; and the popularization of do-it-yourself publishing from the late 1940s to the 1970s, which offered bar guides, handmade magazines, and other materials that gay men and lesbians could use to seek one another out. In the process, Meeker unearths a treasure trove of archival materials that reveals how homosexuals played a crucial role in transforming the very structure of communications and urban communities since the postwar era. \"\u003ci\u003eContacts Desired\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and enduring work of scholarship, surely the best book in gay and lesbian history this year.\"--\u003ci\u003eGay and Lesbian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether one thinks homosexuals are born or made, they generally are not born into gay families, nor are they socialized to be gay by their peers or schools. How then do people become aware of homosexuality and, in some cases, integrate into gay communities? The making of homosexual identity is the result of a communicative process that entails searching, listening, looking, reading, and finding. \u003ci\u003eContacts Desired\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that this communicative process has a history, and it sets out to tell that story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin Meeker here argues that over the course of the twentieth century, a series of important innovations occurred in the networks that linked individuals to a larger social knowledge of homosexuality. He points to three key innovations in particular: the emergence of the homophile movement in the 1950s; the mass media treatments of homosexuals in the late 1950s and early 1960s; and the popularization of do-it-yourself publishing from the late 1940s to the 1970s, which offered bar guides, handmade magazines, and other materials that gay men and lesbians could use to seek out one another. In the process, Meeker unearths a treasure trove of archival materials that reveals how homosexuals played a crucial role in transforming the very structure of communications and urban communities since the postwar era.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Meeker\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian at the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.98 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748100309280,"sku":"9780226517353","price":66.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b59447599e049050a3daa831c1ad837b.webp?v=1779904477","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/contacts-desired-gay-and-lesbian-communications-and-community-1940s-1970s-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}