Perhaps it isn’t too farfetched to connect the gay experience with the immigrant experience in the early 1900s. I found it fascinating that the gay community formed enclaves of their own. Through our many talks in class, immigrant enclaves seemed to come up each time repeatedly. This opens up to the discussion about enclaves as a whole. These enclaves served as a safety net for the gay community.
This leads to Chauncey’s discussion of gay enclaves that formed during the 1920s such as Greenwich Village. According to Chauncey, gay men were often vocal about who they were and built a healthy community within themselves. One of the myths focused on the isolationism gay men supposedly endured. He restores gay history by falsifying three significant myths about gay culture and how gay people lived in general. George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, (New York: Basic Books, 1995), Intro and chapter 9.Ĭhauncey delves into the history of gay New York before World War 2.
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