His books include “Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940” (1994) and “Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality” (2004).
studies to be honored with the award.Ĭhauncey, a professor of American history at Columbia University, where he is the director of the school’s Research Institute on the Global History of Sexualities, is known for his exploration of the lives of 20th-century gay and lesbian people and the harsh discrimination that plagued them. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, making him the first scholar in L.G.B.T.Q. The Library of Congress has named the historian George Chauncey this year’s winner of the John W.
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