The Queer Renaissance Elena Ferrándiz As he grew up

As he grew up

Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costs—and contradictions—of the city’s ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives

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The Queer Renaissance Elena Ferrándiz As he grew upBefore the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was still quite rare. In the 1980s and 90s, however, all that changed. The Queer Renaissance puts a name to the unprecedented outpouring of creative work by