Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Traversing the Hills of Edendale Prologue: A World Left Behind 1. "A Most Lascivious Picture of Impatient Desire" 2. Together against the World: Self, Community, and Expression among the Artists of Edendale 3. 1930s Containment: Identity by State Dictate 4. Left of Edendale: The Deep Politics of Communist Community 5. The United Nations in a City: Racial Ideas in Edendale, on the Left, and in Wartime Los Angeles 6. Getting Some Identity: Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction Conclusion: The Struggle of Identity Politics Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Daniel Hurewitz is Assistant Professor of History at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of Stepping Out: Nine Walks through New York's Gay and Lesbian Past.

Reviews

"Stakes new claims upon the history of queer Los Angeles, mapping broad potentialities onto a small locale."--Journal of the History of Sexuality