The gay revolution by lillian faderman
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There are a few books every year I wish I had written. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman just leapt to the top of that list. It is, unquestionably, a landmark book and will likely be the template by which subsequent scholarship on our collective lesbian and gay history will be judged.
Faderman has long been, with Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, John D’Emilio, Bonnie Zimmerman, Esther Newton and a handful of others, one of the premiere historians of lesbian and gay America.
We are fortunate to have her (as we are them). The Gay Revolution proves why.
Lesbian readers know Faderman from her histories of lesbian lives, To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Possess Done For America–A History, Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literaturefrom the 17th Century to the Present, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon and Surpassing the There are a few books every year I wish I had written. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, by Lillian Faderman just leapt to the top of that list. It is, unquestionably, a landmark publication and will likely be the template by which subsequent scholarship on our collective lesbian and gay history will be judged. Faderman has long been, with Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, John D’Emilio, Bonnie Zimmerman, Esther Newton, and a handful of others, one of the premiere historians of lesbian and gay America. We are fortunate to have her (as we are them). The Gay Revolution proves why. Lesbian readers verb Faderman from her histories of lesbian lives, To Trust in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America—A History, Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, Scotch Verdict, and Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Like Between Women from the Renaissance to the Offer Lillian Faderman, a leading scholar of LGBT history, writes that she exists because her unmarried mother Mary, a Jewish garment worker in lower Manhattan, had the gumption to oppose a third abortion. Instead, Mary and her sister, Rae, took the noun to Los Angeles and scraped together a brand-new life. &#;She was the driving force behind everything I became,&#; Faderman told a reporter for the San Francisco J-Weekly, contrasting her path to a doctorate in English at the University of California while her mother was practically illiterate. The writer tells this story in Naked in the Promised Land, her memoir. The book traces a pinched childhood, a young adulthood as model and habitué of the Los Angeles lesbian underground and long decades as a writer and professor, teaching at San Francisco State University, Fresno. Faderman’s 10th book, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle chronicles a larger, unfinished story. Through more than interviews and documents from 20 archives, it explores “how we got here.” In vivid prose, Faderman traces court cases and brave individuals, hea “This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington Post
A Page Journey Through Gay American History
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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 deal with 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 s, 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