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Beemyn, Brett. "A Queer Capital: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life in Washington, D.C., 1890-1955," American Studies, University of Iowa, August 1997.
A Queer Capital focuses upon the Black and white same-sex sexual communities of Washington from the 1890s, the years in which gay life in the city seems to have first been documented, through 1954, when open discrimination began to wane following the banning of segregation in the capital. Unlike most previous works on same-sex sexuality, which either ignored African Americans or assumed that their experiences were the same as whites, this study demonstrates that lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals created communities that were often structured along racial lines and that Black gay institutions were specifically rooted in African-American culture.
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