The gay rights movement /
The gay rights movement /
Jennifer Smith, book editor.
- San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale,
- 222 pages ; 23 cm.
- American social movements .
- American social movements. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of the Gay Rights Movement -- Coming Out and Coming Together -- The Struggle for Survival -- The Gay Counterculture: Confronting Conservatism in the Movement -- Voices from the Movement. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Origins of the Gay Rights Movement. Homosexuality is not a disease / Henry Gerber -- The homosexual is part of nature's complexity / James Baldwin -- we must break out of our individual ghettos and mobilize / Leo Ebreo -- Sexism within the growing movement / Shirley Willer -- Coming Out and Coming Together. How the Stonewall Inn uprising politicized the gay community / Jack Nichols -- The effeminist manifesto / Steven Dansky, John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford -- Harvey Milk's political empowerment of the gay community / Gregory J. Rosmaita -- The political necessities of a gay liberation movement / Michael Denneny -- The Struggle for Survival. Ethical propaganda? using advertising to combat homophobia / by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen -- The gay community must mobilize against AIDS / by Larry Kramer -- Keeping the faith : gay activism in the Catholic Church / by Tom Dlugos -- In good times and in bad : the Vermont Civil Union Law provides equal rights for same-sex couples / by Paula Ettelbrick -- The Gay Counterculture: Confronting Conservatism in the Movement. The lesbian butch-fem relationship is not a heterosexual mock-up / by Joan Nestle -- The challenges facing the bisexual liberation movement / by Rebecca Shuster -- The need for a centralized movement remains / by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen -- Voices from the Movement. I have no brothers : how women fared in the early movement / by Del Martin -- We need gay leaders in office / by Harvey Milk -- A gay rights activist reflects on the movement / by Larry Kramer -- On being Black and gay / by James Bernard Jones -- An activist of the streets, for the streets, by the streets / by Sylvia (Ray) Rivera -- Chronology.
The gay rights movement is a source of power and pride, challenging the lack of political activism and internal dissension as well as amassing both social and legal victories. This anthology explores the movement's key figures and priorities in its fight to secure equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.
0737711574 9780737711578 0737711582 9780737711585
1139758 QBI
2002192516
Gay liberation movement--United States.
Gay rights--United States.
Gay liberation movement.
Gay rights.
Gay liberation movement--United States.
United States.
HQ76.8.U5 / G359 2003
305.9/0664/0973
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins of the Gay Rights Movement -- Coming Out and Coming Together -- The Struggle for Survival -- The Gay Counterculture: Confronting Conservatism in the Movement -- Voices from the Movement. Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Origins of the Gay Rights Movement. Homosexuality is not a disease / Henry Gerber -- The homosexual is part of nature's complexity / James Baldwin -- we must break out of our individual ghettos and mobilize / Leo Ebreo -- Sexism within the growing movement / Shirley Willer -- Coming Out and Coming Together. How the Stonewall Inn uprising politicized the gay community / Jack Nichols -- The effeminist manifesto / Steven Dansky, John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford -- Harvey Milk's political empowerment of the gay community / Gregory J. Rosmaita -- The political necessities of a gay liberation movement / Michael Denneny -- The Struggle for Survival. Ethical propaganda? using advertising to combat homophobia / by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen -- The gay community must mobilize against AIDS / by Larry Kramer -- Keeping the faith : gay activism in the Catholic Church / by Tom Dlugos -- In good times and in bad : the Vermont Civil Union Law provides equal rights for same-sex couples / by Paula Ettelbrick -- The Gay Counterculture: Confronting Conservatism in the Movement. The lesbian butch-fem relationship is not a heterosexual mock-up / by Joan Nestle -- The challenges facing the bisexual liberation movement / by Rebecca Shuster -- The need for a centralized movement remains / by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen -- Voices from the Movement. I have no brothers : how women fared in the early movement / by Del Martin -- We need gay leaders in office / by Harvey Milk -- A gay rights activist reflects on the movement / by Larry Kramer -- On being Black and gay / by James Bernard Jones -- An activist of the streets, for the streets, by the streets / by Sylvia (Ray) Rivera -- Chronology.
The gay rights movement is a source of power and pride, challenging the lack of political activism and internal dissension as well as amassing both social and legal victories. This anthology explores the movement's key figures and priorities in its fight to secure equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans.
0737711574 9780737711578 0737711582 9780737711585
1139758 QBI
2002192516
Gay liberation movement--United States.
Gay rights--United States.
Gay liberation movement.
Gay rights.
Gay liberation movement--United States.
United States.
HQ76.8.U5 / G359 2003
305.9/0664/0973