About the Author

Chad Heap is associate professor of American studies at the George Washington University.

Reviews

"Exhaustively researched and beautifully written.... Vivid and astonishingly detailed." - George Chauncey, author of Gay New York "This is a beautiful book that will be a milestone in our understandings of sexuality, race, normalcy, and metropolitan American modernity." - American Historical Review "An enthralling history.... Assiduously parsed, perhaps to mitigate the inherent titillation of the material." - New Yorker"