The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Issue 2016“This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington Post The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights—based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. In “the most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement” (The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties; the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic; and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality. “A compelling read of a little-known part of our nation’s history, and of individuals whose stories range from heart-wrenching to inspiring to enraging to motivational” (Chicago Tribune), The Gay Revolution paints a nuanced portrait of the LGBT civil rights movement. A defining account, this is the most complete and authoritative book of its kind. |
Contents
5 | 53 |
The Daughters | 74 |
Jousts with the Four Horsemen | 91 |
8 | 115 |
xi | 128 |
The Homosexual American Citizen Takes the Government | 146 |
The Riots | 171 |
New Gay Politics | 188 |
Family Values | 442 |
New Gays and Lesbians Versus the Old Military | 471 |
Dont Ask Dont Tell Dont Serve | 495 |
27 | 513 |
53 | 527 |
How Lesbians and Gays Stopped Being Sex Criminals | 537 |
The First Law in American History That Begins the Job | 552 |
74 | 561 |
13 | 210 |
Lesbian Feminists | 227 |
Dressing for Dinner | 249 |
How Gays and Lesbians Stopped Being Crazies | 279 |
The Culture War in Earnest | 298 |
Enter Anita | 321 |
How to Lose a Battle | 336 |
Grappling with Defeat | 355 |
Learning How to Win | 366 |
Of Martyrs and Marches | 393 |
The Plague | 415 |
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