Gay New York Then and Now

After reading the section on politics and Gay Culture I find it incredibly surprising both of how far we have come and how deep we dove into masking gay culture and gay personalities. On one hand, I think we as a 21st century American culture have taken great strides to understanding homosexual values but I find it amazing that those values were ever misunderstood in the first place. In the time of Chauncey's writing, homosexuality was so different than what it was now.