Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland

A Harvard student expelled for cross-dressing in the early 1600s, 17th-century citizens fined for same-sex cohabitation, touring female impersonators of the nineteenth century, early 20th-century women who passed as men and married other women . . .Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict the last three centuries of gay and lesbian life in Boston – the American city with the longest recognized history of gay and lesbian life – and is the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.