"A Social Historian’s Social Historian"

"The next Sunday’s Times was a repeat. The lead op-ed was a précis of his book’s arguments—by George Chauncey. And the Book Review pined for a sequel (Chauncey is completing that project, The Strange Career of the Closet, this summer). Some time later Chauncey wrote an obituary of John Boswell for the London Guardian, noting that gays 'who never met Boswell spoke of him with an awe bordering on reverence and with the deepest sense of gratitude.' Meanwhile, on June 28 Stonewall was being celebrated in the streets, and in New York Chauncey experienced a Boswell-like moment: marching in a parade with friends, 'bystanders would yell at me, "Love the book!" It happened to me a dozen times that day.' His tone suggests wonder; the week changed his life. 'I had lived alone with this world I was recreating for such a long time, and suddenly everyone was invited in.'"

In a 2003 University of Chicago Magazine article, Rick Perlstein profiles George Chauncey.