Compare “Donald Vining, A Gay Diary, vol. 2 [New York City, 1946-49], selections” everyday gay life and his attitude toward his homosexuality with that of Martin Duberman, “Gay in the Fifties” [diary, 1956-58].

Compare “Donald Vining, A Gay Diary, vol. 2 [New York City, 1946-49], selections” everyday gay life and his attitude toward his homosexuality with that of Martin Duberman, “Gay in the Fifties” [diary, 1956-58].

Compare “Donald Vining, A Gay Diary, vol. 2 [New York City, 1946-49], selections” everyday gay life and his attitude toward his homosexuality with that of ONE of the other four diarists/memoirists (marked below). Drawing on both of them, how would you characterize gay men’s lives and consciousnessin the postwar years? Focus on analyzing the diaries. You may also find it helpful to include material from the oral history interviews with the Asian American gay men, but you are not required to do so.

-Martin Duberman, “Gay in the Fifties” [diary, 1956-58]
-Paul Monette, Becoming a Man, 101-38 [on his freshman year in college, 1963-64]
-James Baldwin, “Here Be Dragons” [on Harlem and Greenwich Village, 1940s]
-Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water, 218-24, 172-76 [on Harlem and Greenwich Village, 1948-63]

Compare “Donald Vining, A Gay Diary, vol. 2 [New York City, 1946-49], selections” everyday gay life and his attitude toward his homosexuality with that of Martin Duberman, “Gay in the Fifties” [diary, 1956-58].