The Deviant's War

The Deviant's War
Title The Deviant's War PDF eBook
Author Eric Cervini
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 512
Release 2020-06-02
Genre History
ISBN 0374721564

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FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Washington Post's Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, and the Creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer (coming June 2022 to Discovery+), the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.

Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement
Title Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement PDF eBook
Author Michael G. Long
Publisher Springer
Pages 162
Release 2012-11-28
Genre History
ISBN 1137275529

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was not an advocate of homosexual rights, nor was he an enemy; however both sides of the debate have used his words in their arguments, including his widow, in support of gay rights, and his daughter, in rejection. This fascinating situation poses the problem that Michael G. Long seeks to address and resolve.

Sexual Injustice

Sexual Injustice
Title Sexual Injustice PDF eBook
Author Marc Stein
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 381
Release 2010-10-04
Genre Law
ISBN 0807899372

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Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration statute that classified homosexuals as "psychopathic personalities." Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality.

The Gay Past

The Gay Past
Title The Gay Past PDF eBook
Author S. J. Licala
Publisher Routledge
Pages 241
Release 2014-06-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317959701

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Fascinating reading on the plight of gay men and women through the ages. The contributors to this compassionate book document how society has made life difficult and even dangerous for homosexual people. Through narrative history as well as biography, these essays trace the legal, social, and physical consequences of this oppression.

The Gay and Lesbian Movement

The Gay and Lesbian Movement
Title The Gay and Lesbian Movement PDF eBook
Author Robert B. Marks Ridinger
Publisher Macmillan Reference USA
Pages 520
Release 1996
Genre History
ISBN

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The Gay Revolution

The Gay Revolution
Title The Gay Revolution PDF eBook
Author Lillian Faderman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 816
Release 2015-09-08
Genre History
ISBN 1451694113

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The fight for gay, lesbian and trans civil rights is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth and intricacies only an award-winning activist, scholar and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke. A defining account, this is the most complete and authoritative book of its kind.

Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements

Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements
Title Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements PDF eBook
Author JoAnne Myers
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Pages 518
Release 2013-09-19
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0810874687

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Not so long ago hardly anything was said of the Lesbian Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement, indeed, the terms gay and lesbian were not even used if some other expression could be found. Today, by contrast, hardly a day passes when something important does not occur, and is carried by the major media and disseminated on more personal levels through blogs and the social media. If anything, there is perhaps too much “news” and not enough “information.” Obviously, a book like this cannot keep up with the news, but it can do something equally important when it comes to information, by reminding us of the past and what has been going and just how fast events are moving. The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements covers the history of this movement through a cross-referenced dictionary with over 1000 entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions. Including a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, this book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone interested in learning more about the struggle for equality.