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BOOK
Title The gay revolution : the story of the struggle / Lillian Faderman
Imprint New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015
©2015

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  306.76 engelska    DUE 24-04-08  ---
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Descript xx, 794 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [641]-767) and index
Scapegoats. Lawbreakers and loonies ; America hunts for witches ; No army of lovers : toward a homosexual-free military ; America protects its youngsters -- The homophiles. Mattachine ; The daughters ; Jousts with the four horsemen -- Revolts before the revolution. Slivers of space and justice ; Throwing down the gauntlet ; The homosexual American citizen takes the government to court -- Earthquake : the Stonewall years. The riots ; Say it proud, and loud : new gay politics ; Less talk and more action : the Gay Activists Alliance ; A parallel revolution : lesbian feminists -- A place at the table. Dressing for dinner ; How gays and lesbians stopped being crazies ; The culture war in earnest -- How Anita Bryant advanced gay and lesbian civil rights. Enter, Anita ; How to lose a battle ; Grappling with defeat ; Learning how to win -- Ashes and phoenixes. Of martyrs and marches ; The plague ; Family values -- Demanding to serve. New gays and lesbians versus the old military ; Don't ask, don't tell, don't serve ; "Get 'Don't ask, don't tell' done!" -- LGBT American citizens. How lesbians and gays stopped being sex criminals ; "The first law in American history that begins the job of protecting LGBT people" ; A forty-year war : the struggle for workplace protection -- "What justification could there possibly be for denying homosexuals the benefits of marriage?". "The status that everyone understands as the ultimate expression of love and commitment" ; Getting it right, and wrong, in the West ; The evolution of a president and the country
A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s
The book 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 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
Subject Gay rights -- United States -- History
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History
Gays -- United States -- History
Gayrörelsen -- historia -- Förenta staterna
HBTQ -- politisk verksamhet -- medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter
Diskriminering -- homofobi
HIV -- AIDS
Militären
Äktenskap -- lagar
Lesbian and gay movement -- history -- United States
LGBTQ -- political activities -- civil rights
Discrimination -- homophobia
HIV -- AIDS
Armed forces
Marriage -- laws
Civil rights movements
Homosexuella
Medborgarrättsrörelser
Förenta staterna
Classmark 306.76/60973
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ISBN/ISSN 9781451694123
9781451694116 hardcover alkaline paper
1451694113 hardcover alkaline paper
9781451694123 trade paperback alkaline paper
40025225809
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