Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

The New York Times Bestseller
The New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022”

“Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.”—George Stephanopoulos

Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City.

For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere s...