| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging. By Gary L. Atkins. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. x, 451 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-295-98298-5.)

With Gay Seattle, Gary L. Atkins adds to the growing bibliography of monographs that provide useful local historical studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. In fact, it adds to the developing list of such works that focus specifically on the U.S. Northwest. (Related titles include Don Paulson with Roger Simpson, An Evening at the Garden of Allah, 1996, and Peter Boag, Same-Sex Affairs, 2003.) The book, which begins in the late nineteenth century, is organized chronologically; two short parts that cover selected topics in the decades before 1970 are followed by a much longer third part that takes up about three-quarters of the book and offers a much more detailed account of the post-1970 era. According to Atkins, over the course of a century a group of city residents who had been defined as outcasts, exiles, criminals, and crazies achieved "a sense of belonging—belonging with each other and belonging within the city's own civic conversation about who constituted citizens worth hearing" (p. 7).

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