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Marc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco have for too long obscured the contributions of other cities to gay culture.
About the Author
Marc Stein is a historian of sexuality, law, politics, and social movements. After sixteen years of teaching at York University in Toronto, he was appointed the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History and Constitutional Law at San Francisco State University in 2014. The author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000) , Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) , and Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Routledge, 2012) , he also served as the editor-in-chief of the award-winning three-volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Scribners, 2003) . He has been the recipient of York University's graduate teaching award, two major research grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ken Dawson Award by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York, and the Gregory Sprague and Audre Lorde Prizes by the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History. Stein is the former editor of Gay Community News in Boston, the former chair of the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History, and the former chair of the Organization of American Historians' Committee on the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories.
