Routledge publishes first history of LGBT life in Washington, D.C.
“They made history and made a difference”From the turn of the twentieth century through the 1980s, gay people in Washington, D.C. created their own communities, fought for their rights, and, in the process, helped to change the country. But much of this vivid history had never been documented. Until now. In A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington, D.C. (Routledge, July 2014), Genny Beemyn explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals established spaces of their own before and after World War II, survived some of the harshest anti-gay campaigns in the U.S., and organized