How did queer/trans communities carve out urban enclaves for expression and intimacy as cities flourished during the early 20th century?
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📖 George Chauncey, “‘Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public’: Forging a Gay World in the Streets,” in Gay New York (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 179-207.
🎨 Poem: Langston Hughes, “Café at 3 a.m.,” in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (New York: Alfred A. Kopf, 1995), 406.
