Coherence

Williams' Style addresses five key points on the subject of coherence in writing, all of which Chauncey uses well in his, Gay New York.  His concluding paragraphs are particularly effective, as demonstrated in the final paragraph of the chapter, "Trade, Wolves, and the Boundaries of Normal Manhood," on page 96-97: 

"Not all men in working-class New York had the same degree of interest in sex with a fairy (and many had none at all), just as not all men had the same degree of interest in sex with a dark-skinned woman or a middle-aged woman or a blue-eyed woman.  But almost all workingmen- from the liquor authority agents who watched "fags" trying to pick up sailors at the Happy Hour Bar to the newsstand owner who watched sailors trying to pick up fairies at the Times Square Building- considered it unremarkable that a man might go with a fairy and as little revelatory about his sexual identity as his preference for one kind of woman over another.  A man's occasional recourse to fairies did not prove he had homosexual desire for another man, as today's hetero-homosexual binarism would insist, but only that he was interested in the forms of phallic pleasure a fairy could provide as well as a female prostitute could.  Men's identities and reputations simply did not depend on a sexuality defined by the anatomical sex of their sexual partners.  Just as the abnormality of the fairy depended on his violation of gender conventions, rather than his homosexual practices alone, the normality of other men depended on their conformity to those conventions rather than on an eschewal of homosexual practices which those conventions did not require.  Heterosexuality had not become a precondition of gender normativity in early-twentieth-century working-class culture.  Men had to be many things in order to achieve the status of normal men, but being "heterosexual" was not one of them."  

Chauncey uses the concepts highlighted by Williams throughout this paragraph.  He uses the "point-last" concept, building up to the main point of the paragraph, which is located at the end.   However, he hints at the final sentence throughout the paragraph, saying it in several different ways previously.  However, Chauncey even in his different articulations of the same point, Chauncey does not use different, distracting terms.  He sticks to those of "fairy," "normal," "homosexuality,"  and "heterosexuality,"  rather than throwing in different terms.   He also weaves in the same examples used previously in the chapter, tying together the different concepts he is trying to highlight.  Chauncey also follows the rules of placing familiar information first in his sentences, referring to the subject of the previous sentence to start each of his subsequent sentences.  In this way, the meaning flows cohesively throughout the paragraph.  His topic strings are clearly articulated throughout the paragraph, with acceptable sex in the early -twentieth -century being the main topic, and thematic strings of the different variations on this acceptability woven throughout, usually in the logical place at the end of the sentence.  Ultimately, Chauncey's adherence to Williams' principles make for a paragraph that is easy to read that is ultimately quite coherent.