Charles Kaiser

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Charles Kaiser is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction books

The Gay Metropolis (1997), and The Cost of Courage (2015). A former reporter for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, he is currently a nonfiction book critic for The Guardian
.

Biography

Kaiser was born in

New York Observer, New York magazine, and Vanity Fair. His first book, 1968 in America
, was published in 1988.

Kaiser's second book,

The Gay Metropolis (1997), is a social history that traces the cultural accomplishments and increased social acceptance of gay people in America between the years 1940 and 1996.[4] Kaiser later said that he wrote the book out of "an obligation to bear witness to what we had all lived through [during the AIDS epidemic]," explaining, "I wanted to write a book that would include AIDS, but not be overwhelmed by it".[5] In 2007, an updated edition of The Gay Metropolis was published, and Kaiser appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the book.[6] In 2019, The Guardian described the third updated edition of The Gay Metropolis as "one of the key popular studies of American social history [and] among the first accounts that sought to provide an extended history of gay life (admittedly mostly male) before and after Stonewall."[7] Kaiser's book has also been cited for popularizing the theory that Judy Garland's funeral was one of the motivating factors behind the Stonewall riots.[8]

From 2007 to 2011, Kaiser wrote Full Court Press, a blog about the media that appeared on Radar Online, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation website.[9][10][11]

In 2012, Kaiser wrote the afterword for a new edition of Merle Miller's landmark 1971 work On Being Different: What it Means to Be a Homosexual.[12]

Kaiser's third book, The Cost of Courage, follows the story of the Boulloches, a family who participated in the French Resistance. To research the book, Kaiser lived in France for two and a half years, interviewing surviving members of the Boulloche family and studying newly declassified documents from British intelligence agencies.[13] The Cost of Courage was published in 2015 to enthusiastic reviews from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor.[14][15][16] In 2015, Kaiser said that his next project would be "a big book about New York since 1970."[13]

Kaiser has taught journalism at Columbia University and Princeton University; in 2018, he was named Acting Director of the LGBTQ Public Policy Center at Hunter College.[citation needed] He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his husband, the artist Joe Stouter.[13]

Bibliography

Honors

  • 1997
    Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies (for The Gay Metropolis)[17]
  • 2015 Paris Book Festival Award for General Non-Fiction (for The Cost of Courage)[18]
  • 2015 Inducted into the LGBTQ Journalists Hall of Fame[19]

References

  1. ^ "Philip M. Kaiser, 93; longtime U.S. diplomat," Los Angeles Times 26 May 2007.
  2. ^ "Charles Kaiser: Author of The Gay Metropolis," Gay Today 3 Nov. 1997.
  3. ^ "Our Past Engaged: Four Turning Points in Columbia's Recent History" (PDF). columbia.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  4. ^ Lopate, Phillip. "Rapid Transit: How 'America's most despised minority' gained acceptance in record time," The New York Times 9 Nov. 1997.
  5. Los Angeles Magazine
    23 Jul. 2019
  6. ^ "The Colbert Report - Series | Comedy Central Official Site | CC.com". Colbertnation.com. September 30, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  7. ^ Turner, Mark. "The Gay Metropolis review: if we can survive Aids, we can survive Trump," The Guardian 18 Aug. 2019.
  8. ^ Waxman, Olivia B. "Some People Think Stonewall Was Triggered by Judy Garland’s Funeral. Here’s Why Many Experts Disagree," Time 23 Jun. 2019.
  9. ^ "Search Results". Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  10. Cjr.org
    . Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  11. ^ "Full Court Press | the Hillman Foundation". Archived from the original on July 17, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  12. ^ Kaiser, Charles. "When The New York Times Came Out of the Closet," The New York Review of Books 25 Sept. 2012.
  13. ^ a b c Kalb, Deborah. "Q&A with Charles Kaiser," Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb 16 Jun. 2015.
  14. ^ Kirsch, Jonathan (June 19, 2015). "Unraveling a long-suppressed mystery of French Nazi resistance". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  15. ^ Rosbottom, Ronald C. (June 16, 2015). "Paris's Secret Garden". Wsj.com. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  16. ^ "'The Cost of Courage' profiles a heroic family of French Resistance fighters". CSMonitor.com. June 17, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  17. ^ "Lambda Literary". Lambda Literary. July 14, 1998. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  18. ^ "Paris Book Festival".
  19. ^ "NLGJA Hall of Fame - NLGJA".

External links

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