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xi Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to many people who have helped make this book a reality. First and foremost, I thank Lois Banner and Steve Ross in the history department at the University of Southern California for serving as co-chairs of my dissertation committee, for reading countless chapter drafts over many years, and for their unceasing encouragement and inspiration throughout graduate school. I also thank Phil Ethington in history and Michael Messner in sociology for serving on my dissertation committee and providing invaluable feedback and support throughout the process. Many people at USC made important contributions to this specific project and my development as a scholar and teacher. I thank Elinor Accampo (and Sophie, for being such a good dog), Alice Echols, Terry Seip, Richard Fox, George Sanchez, Lynn Spigel, Philippa Levine, Carole Shammas, Drew Casper, Marjorie Becker, Judith Grant, Rick Jewell, Carla Kaplan, Julie Nyquist, and Walter Williams. Thank you to my fellow graduate students at USC, especially Tillman Netchman, Karin Huebner, Matt Newsome-Kerr, Stacy Newsome-Kerr, Vicki Vantoch (and Misha), Pete La Chapelle, Shirley Brautbar, John Bradshaw, Ian Livie, Chris West Y Jimenez, Liz Willis-Tropea, Treva Tucker, Joseph Wright, Marion Umeno, Jeff Montez de Oca, James Thing, Michael Carter, James Bell, and Jon Acevedo . A special thank you to Jeff Kosiorek for being such a good friend and for playing all those Monopoly games with me. A sincere and heartfelt thank you to the USC history department staff: Lori Ann Rogers, Laverne Hughes, Brenda Johnson, Sandra Hopwood, and, of course, Joseph Styles. Thank you to the USC College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences for generous funding over the years. Thank you to the Ford Foundation and Social Science Research Council for additional funding through the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program. Thank you to Diane Mauro, Lissa Gundlach, and the talented scholars I had to privilege to meet and get to know at the Kinsey Institute in 2005. xii / Acknowledgments This book would not exist if not for the graciousness and generosity of the volunteers and staff at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles. I thank everyone for making my years there as a researcher and volunteer so rewarding. I especially thank Joseph Hawkins for his superb leadership of the archive as well as his academic camaraderie and friendship. A special thank you to Pat Allen for pointing me in the direction of the ONE magazine correspondence back in 2000. Thank you to the many scholars, volunteers, staff, and stewards of the archive who I have had the pleasure to know, including Stuart Timmons, Michael Quinn, Yolanda Retter, James Morrow, Dan Luckenbill, David Hensley, David Kaiser, Misha Schutt, Ashlie Midfelt, Matt Knowlton, Daniel Rivers, Bud Thomas, John Master, and Fred Bradford. A very special thank you to Lee McEvoy, a longtime ONE volunteer who tutored me extensively about gay history and its complex interplay with the history of classical music. I am indebted to my study group of gifted historians for reading chapter drafts and offering such an abundance of helpful suggestions. Thank you Steve Ross (once again), John Laslett, Leila Zenderland, Frank Stricker, Nancy Fitch, Hal Barron, Bob Slayton, Jan Rieff, Becky Nicolaides , Allison Varzally, Karen Brodkin, Toby Higbie, and Jennifer Luff. I have benefited from our monthly meetings in more ways than I can describe. Thank you to my colleagues in the American Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton. Thanks especially to Jesse Battan and John Ibson for professional guidance and wisdom over the years. Thanks to fellow instructors Sharon Sekhon, Randy Baxter, Kristin Hargrove , Tracy Sachtjen, Karen Kidd, Casey Christensen, Trista O’ Connell, Amanda Perez, Shawn Schwaller, and Sam Sousa for creating such an intellectually invigorating working environment. Thank you Carole Angus and Karla Arellano for such superb work every day. A big thank you to CSUF’s undergraduates for their talents, energy, and enthusiasm. Thank you to SUNY Press for being so supportive of my research. Thank you to editors Larin McLaughlin and Andrew Kenyon for guidance throughout the submission process and for so promptly answering all my emails and questions. Thank you series editors Cynthia Burack and Jyl Josephson for your professionalism, encouragement, and wisdom. Thank you to the anonymous reviewers for such constructive and thoughtful feedback. Thanks also to Doug Mitchell for initial interest in the project. Thank you to the many individuals who have inspired me over the years. At the University of California, Santa Barbara, I profusely thank Richard Flacks, who gave me...

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