LibGuides: Williams Institute Reading Room: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resources in Law and Public Policy: LGBT Movement/History

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American LGBTQ+ Museum
“The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a new collaboration dedicated to preserving, researching, and sharing LGBTQ+ history and culture.” Slated to open in 2024 at the location of the New York Historical Society. The museum “will tell our evolving histories in our own voices, as we envision a world in which all people work toward and experience the joy of liberation.”
Making Gay History Podcast
"Bringing the voices of queer history to life through intimate conversations with LGBTQ champions, heroes, and witnesses to history." Founder & Host: Eric Marcus. Founded in 2016.
This Way Out (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
"The This Way Out collection contains more than 1700 full-length episodes covering the years 1988 through 2023 from the only internationally distributed weekly LGBTQ radio program, currently broadcast over 200 local community radio stations worldwide. This award-winning, half-hour, magazine-style program delivers a comprehensive overview of major news events impacting the queer community (NewsWrap), along with in-depth coverage of significant events, interviews with prominent LGBTQ figures, and segments on music, literature, and entertainment."
Outwords
"OUTWORDS captures, preserves, and shares the stories of LGBTQIA2S+* elders, to build community and catalyze social change." Browse their amazing collection of interviews!
LGBTQ+ Rights (Hein Online)
"This collection charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today." Subcollections include: Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, Public Spaces and Accommodations, and Historical Attitudes and Analysis, as well as a curated list of Scholarly Articles selected by Hein editors, a Bibliography, and an interactive timeline, spanning 1950 to the present day. (UCLA users only).
Outfest UCLA Legacy Project
Created in 2005, "It is the largest publicly accessible collection of LGBTQ films in the world ... With over 41,000 holdings in the collection, the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project has established itself as the leading archive for LGBTQ moving image media preservation."
Get Used to It
A talk show hosted and co-produced by Sheila Kuehl, the first openly gay or lesbian person elected to the California legislature in 1994, and serving as a Los Angeles County supervisor since 2014. The show, which ran from 1992 -- 2012, was originally broadcast on the City of West Hollywood's public access channel. All 177 episodes are now available online, as well as being archived in the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project Collection.

Classics, new editions

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis
Call Number: HQ75.6.U52 N45 2014
ISBN: 1138785857
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. This 20th anniversary edition republishes the book for a new generation of readers. It includes a new preface in which the authors reflect on where the last 20 years have taken them.
The mayor of Castro Street : the life & times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
Call Number: F869.S353 M547 1982
ISBN: 0312560850
*Williams Reading Room has 1982 edition.
Sister outsider : essays and speeches by by Audre Lorde
Call Number: PS3562.O75 S5 1984
ISBN: 1580911862
*Williams Reading Room has 1984 edition.
We too, must love : a Gold Medal original by by Ann Aldrich
Call Number: PS3561.E65 W4 1958
ISBN: 155861527X
*Williams Reading Room has 1958 edition.

LGBT Rights Movement /History, 2020 -

Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani
Call Number: HQ76.25 .G497 2024
ISBN: 9780691253855
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe--but it's definitely not the last dance In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife. Far from the gay bar with its largely white, gay male clientele, here is a dazzling scene of secret parties--club nights--wherein culture creatives, many of whom are queer, trans, and racial minorities, reclaim the night in the name of those too long left out. Episodic, nomadic, and radically inclusive, club nights are refashioning queer nightlife in boundlessly imaginative and powerfully defiant ways. Drawing on Ghaziani's immersive encounters at underground parties in London and more than one hundred riveting interviews with everyone from bar owners to party producers, revelers to rabble-rousers, Long Live Queer Nightlife showcases a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.
*Also available online (UC users only)
The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights by Harris Dousemetzis
Call Number: E872 .D68 2024
ISBN: 9781350381087
Publication Date: 2024-08-22
Examining a significant and largely unexplored aspect of Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977-1981), Harris Dousemetzis radically revises the current understanding of this critical period in American political history. By using a wealth of previously unpublished archival material, along with personal interviews with 43 prominent gay rights activists of the time and 12 senior Carter White House aides, this book documents what actually happened during Carter's presidency regarding the development and recognition of gay rights and the efforts of the evangelical right to prevent social reform. Investigating the full range of government actions taken and policies implemented, Carter's personal commitment and support for the movement, as well as the role of activists in bringing about change, this is a significant and original contribution to knowledge about Carter's presidency, the gay rights movement, and American political development. Dousemetzis situates Carter's presidency in its rightful place, as a crucial stage in one of the most dynamic areas of change in recent American politics and political culture. Features a Foreword by Stuart Eizenstat and an Afterword by Lilian Faderman.
Morally Straight: How the Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusion Changed the Boy Scouts--and America by Mike De Socio
Call Number: HS3313 .D47 2024
ISBN: 9781639363858
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
This deeply-reported narrative illuminates the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts of America, a decades-long struggle led by teenagers, parents, activists, and everyday Americans. Weaving in his own experience as a scout and journalist, Mike De Socio's Morally Straight tells a story that plays out over the course of nearly forty years, beginning in an era when gay rights were little more than a cultural sideshow; when same-sex marriage was not even on the radar; and when much of the country was recommitting to conservative social mores. It was during this treacherous time that accidental activists emerged, challenging one of America's most iconic institutions in a struggle that would forever change the country's view of gay people and the rights they held in society. In Morally Straight we meet James Dale, the poster child of Scouting who took his fight for inclusion to the Supreme Court; Steven Cozza, the 12-year-old scout in California who started a movement for inclusion called Scouting for All; Jennifer Tyrrell, the lesbian den mother whose expulsion from the Scouts reignited the gay membership controversy; Zach Wahls, the son of lesbian moms who led the final push for policy change; and an array of other previously unknown Scouters who played smaller--but no less crucial--roles in the fight for full inclusion. Richly reported and filled with unforgettable people, Morally Straight braids together these characters and brings to life their collective struggle. This is an essential narrative in the American LGBTQ+ rights movement, and a truly American story about the fight for a better future for our nation's bedrock youth organization.
In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life by Regina Kunzel
Call Number: RC558 .K86 2024
ISBN: 9780226830193
Publication Date: 2024-04-01
In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists' investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry's "golden age." That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.
*Also available online (UC users only)
Under Mountain Shadows: Kay Kershaw, Lesbian Eco-Warrior of the Pacific Northwest by William D. Frank
Call Number: HQ75.4.K47 F73 2024
ISBN: 9781476693927
Publication Date: 2024-03-13
From her world-famous dude ranch in Washington state's Yakima County, Kay Kershaw exerted tremendous influence on conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and, tangentially, on LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. After gaining local renown in sports and aviation, she established the ranch at Goose Prairie with her first partner, Pat Kane--a fraught undertaking in a region closely associated with the John Birch Society. Operating under the guise of two "spinsters," Kershaw and her later life-partner Isabelle Lynn guarded their privacy closely, but local encroachment by the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry forced them into the public arena as environmentalists. In partnership with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Kershaw and Lynn spearheaded a decades-long campaign to save the ancient forests and ecosystem of Washington's Cascade Range. In the process, Kay and Isabelle's devoted relationship proved a marked contrast to Justice Douglas' own turbulent love life, perhaps affecting his perception of the law and his precedent-setting judicial opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which provided the basis for major LGBTQ+ Supreme Court decisions in the twenty-first century as well as Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right by Neil J. Young
Call Number: HQ76.85 .Y686 2024
ISBN: 9780226818054
Publication Date: 2024-04-03
One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and even mocked constituencies in American politics, gay Republicans regularly face condemnation from both the LGBTQ+ community and their own political party. Yet they've been active and influential for decades. Gay conservatives were instrumental, for example, in ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and securing the legalization of same-sex marriage--but they also helped lay the groundwork for the rise of Donald Trump. In Coming Out Republican, political historian and commentator Neil J. Young provides the first comprehensive history of the gay Right. From the 1950s up to the present day, Young excavates the multifarious origins, motivations, and evolutions of LGBTQ+ people who found their way to the institutions and networks of modern conservatism. Many on the gay Right have championed conservative values--like free markets, a strong national defense, and individual liberty--and believed that the Republican Party therefore offered LGBTQ+ people the best pathway to freedom. Meanwhile, that same party has actively and repeatedly demonized them. With his precise and provocative voice, Young details the complicated dynamics of being in--and yet never fully accepted into--the Republican Party. Coming Out Republican provides striking insight into who LGBTQ+ conservatives are, what they want, and why many of them continue to align with a party whose rank and file largely seem to hate them. As the Republican Party renews its assaults on LGBTQ+ rights, understanding the significant history of the gay Right has never been more critical.
*Also available online (UC users only)
The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After by Lucas Hilderbrand
Call Number: HQ76.965.B395 H553 2023
ISBN: 9781478020301
Publication Date: 2023-11-21
Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours, Lucas Hilderbrand offers a panoramic history of gay bars, showing how they served as the medium for queer communities, politics, and cultures. Hilderbrand cruises from leather in Chicago and drag in Kansas City to activism against gentrification in Boston and racial discrimination in Atlanta; from New York City's bathhouses, sex clubs, and discos and Houston's legendary bar Mary's to the alternative scenes that reimagined queer nightlife in San Francisco and Latinx venues in Los Angeles. The Bars Are Ours explores these local sites (with additional stops in Denver, Detroit, Seattle, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Orlando as well as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas) to demonstrate the intoxicating---even world-making---roles that bars have played in queer public life across the country.
*Also available online (UC users only).
L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir by Lydia Otero
Call Number: HQ76.25 .O84 2023
ISBN: 9781734118087
Publication Date: 2023-07-31
Part working-class memoir and part documentary history, L.A. Interchanges follows Lydia Otero as they move from the homes of family members, dancefloors, work sites, and Los Angeles's organizing spaces in search of brown and queer belonging. Through photographs, archival documents, and compelling storytelling, Otero weaves a gripping, passionate narrative of personal becoming amid the political and cultural currents of 1980s Los Angeles.Grounded in the philosophy that the personal is political, Otero portrays fellow organizers as strategists exploring previously unimagined avenues to address the needs of brown queers. The book traces Otero's transformations and blossoming sense of self, which often felt constrained by the binary gender assignments of the time, while it tells a documentary history of Lesbians of Color, Gay and Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), Lesbianas Unidas (LU) and Bienestar: A Gay Latino AIDS Project-groups central to the city's burgeoning queer, brown, and activist scene. Otero's parallel story of becoming an electrician offers a unique vantage point of a city in the midst of restructuring, as Otero's labor contributed to building some of the most iconic structures in Los Angeles, such as the U.S. Bank Tower, Universal Studios' CityWalk, and the Metro Rail.
*See also Otero's 2019 memoir, In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown and Queer.
We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution by Martha Shelley
Call Number: HQ75.4.S54 A3 2023
ISBN: 9781641609418
Publication Date: 2023-06-13
Martha Shelley didn't start out in life wanting to become a gay activist, or an activist of any kind. The daughter of Jewish refugees and undocumented immigrants in New York City, she grew up during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s, was inspired by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements that followed, and struggled with coming out as a lesbian at a time when being gay made her a criminal. Shelley rose to become a public speaker for the New York chapter of the lesbian rights group the Daughters of Bilitis, organized the first gay march in response to the Stonewall Riots of 1969, and then cofounded the Gay Liberation Front. She coproduced the newspaper Come Out!, worked on the women's takeover of the RAT Subterranean News, and took a central role in the Lavender Menace action to confront homophobia in the women's movement. Martha Shelley's story is a feminist and lesbian document that gives context and adds necessary humanity to the historical record.
A Sturdy Yes of a People: Selected Writings by Joan Nestle by Joan Nestle
Call Number: HQ75.4.N47 A5 2022
ISBN: 9781944981525
Publication Date: 2022-12-20
For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE gathers Nestles most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing, and archives that document gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives. Embedded in tales of lesbian desire are Nestle's concerns with the power of class and race in America to exile bodies. From Nestle's earliest popular essays such as "Lesbians and Prostitutes: An Historical Sisterhood" to more recent powerfully evocative pieces like "I Lift My Eyes to the Hill" in which Nestle, a white lesbian, traces the life of her friend, African-American lesbian Mabel Hampton, A Sturdy Yes of a People gathers both her most enduring insights and new provocations for readers and fans to treasure or discover. Scholar Carolyn D'Cruz of La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia situates Nestle's work and its power while an afterword by Susie Bright reminds readers of how transgressive and potent Nestle's sex writing was-and remains. A bold and original thinker, deeply connected with her communities, with an abiding willingness to reexamine and reimagine queer lives by integrating new ideas, challenges, and experiences, Nestle dazzles as a powerful thinker, writer, and theorist.
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton
Call Number: HQ75.5 .B875 2023
ISBN: 9781668000557
Publication Date: 2023-06-06
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America's lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence. Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost--or possibly gained--by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. Her pilgrimage includes taking in her first drag show since the onset of the pandemic at The Back Door in Bloomington, Indiana; competing in dildo races at Houston's Pearl Bar; and, despite her deep-seated hatred of karaoke, joining a group serenade at Nashville's Lipstick Lounge and enjoying the dreaded pastime for the first time in her life. While Burton sets out on the excursion to assess the current state of lesbian bars, she also winds up examining her own personal journey, from coming out to her Mormon parents to recently marrying her husband, a trans man whose presence on the trip underscores the important conversation about who precisely is welcome in certain queer spaces--and how they and their occupants continue to evolve. Moby Dyke is an insightful and hilarious travelogue that celebrates the kind of community that can only be found in windowless rooms soundtracked by Britney Spears-heavy playlists and illuminated by overhead holiday lights no matter the time of year.
Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places by Greggor Mattson
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 M36 2023
ISBN: 9781503629202
Publication Date: 2023-05-30
Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet... Jarred by the closing of his favorite local watering hole in Cleveland, Ohio, Greggor Mattson embarks on a journey across the country to paint a much more complex picture of the cultural significance of these spaces, inside "big four" gay cities, but also beyond them. No longer the only places for their patrons to socialize openly, Mattson finds in them instead a continuously evolving symbol; a physical place for feeling and challenging the beating pulse of sexual progress. From the historical archives of Seattle's Garden of Allah, to the outpost bars in Texas, Missouri or Florida that serve as community hubs for queer youth--these are places of celebration, where the next drag superstar from Alaska or Oklahoma may be discovered. They are also fraught grounds for confronting the racial and gender politics within and without the LGBTQ+ community. The question that frames this story is not asking whether these spaces are needed, but for whom, earnestly exploring the diversity of folks and purposes they serve today. Loosely informed by the Damron Guide, the so-called "Green Book" of gay travel, Mattson logged 10,000 miles on the road to all corners of the United States. His destinations are sometimes thriving, sometimes struggling, but all offering intimate views of the wide range of gay experience in America: POC, white, trans, cis; past, present, and future.
*Also available online (UC users only)
Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
Call Number: HQ75.3 .P67 2023
ISBN: 9781646221059
Publication Date: 2023-05-30
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives--uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love. When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Possanza's hunt takes readers from a drag king show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian's Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love--for swimming, for community, for New York City--and adds her record to the archive. At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?
*Also available online (UC users only)
Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler by Frank Perez
Call Number: HQ75.8.B88 P47 2022
ISBN: 9781496841292
Publication Date: 2022-09-23
During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler fell in love with Alfred Doolittle-a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle's money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation. A survivor of the horrific UpStairs Lounge arson, Butler was a founding member of the first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization in Louisiana and an early champion for transgender rights, playing a key role in the eight-year struggle to persuade PFLAG to become the first national LGBTQ+ organization to include trans people in its mission statement. In Political Animal: The Life and Times of Stewart Butler, author Frank Perez traces Butler's amazing life from his early childhood in Depression-era New Orleans, his adolescence at Carville where his father worked, his first unsuccessful attempt at college, his time in the army as a closeted gay man, his adventures in Alaska, his transformation into a hippie in the 1960s, his love affair with Doolittle, his decades as a gay rights advocate, and ultimately, his twilight years as an elder statesman. Based on Butler's own personal papers, including hundreds of letters, and dozens of interviews, Political Animal paints an intimate portrait of a legendary figure in gay politics and the times in which he lived.
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S75 2023
ISBN: 9780367761981
Publication Date: 2022-08-01
Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides an accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major successes and failures, and the movement's lasting effects and unfinished work. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the second half of the twentieth century, Marc Stein examines the changing agendas, beliefs, strategies, and vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions, campaigns, ideologies, and organizations. From the homophile activism of the 1950s and 1960s through the rise of gay liberation and lesbian feminism in the 1970s to the multicultural and AIDS activist movements of the 1980s, this book provides a strong foundation for understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics today. This new edition reflects the substantial changes in the field since the book's original publication eleven years ago. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement will be valued by everyone interested in LGBTQ struggles, the politics of movement activism, and the history of social justice in the United States.
*Also available online (UCLA users only)
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate (2nd edition) by Jeannie Gainsburg
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 G35 2023
ISBN: 9781538169247
Publication Date: 2023-03-31
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to LGBTQ+ communities.
365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year) by Lewis Laney; Charlotte MacMillan-Scott (Illustrator)
Call Number: HQ73 .L36 2023
ISBN: 9780711273702
Publication Date: 2023-04-18
365 Gays of the Year is a celebration of Queer history told through one LGBTQ+ figure for each day of the year.
Reaching Ninety by Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ75.8.D82 A3 2023
ISBN: 9781641608817
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community's maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he's learned. In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the Abolitionists against the then-standard view of them as "misguided fanatics." In 1964, his documentary play, In White America, which reread the history of racist oppression in this country, toured the country--most notably during Freedom Summer--and became an international hit. Duberman then took on the profession of history for failing to admit the inherent subjectivity of all re-creations of the past. He radically democratized his own seminars at Princeton, for which he was excoriated by powerful professors in his own department, leading him to renounce his tenured full professorship and to join the faculty of the CUNY Graduate School. At CUNY, too, he was initially blocked from offering a pioneering set of seminars on the history of gender and sexuality, but after a fifteen-year struggle succeeded in establishing the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies--which became a beacon for emerging scholars in that new field. By the early Seventies, Duberman had broadened his struggle against injustice by becoming active in protesting the war in Vietnam and in playing a central role in forming the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force and Queers for Economic Justice. Down to the present-day, he continues through his writing to champion those working for a more equitable society.
LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights by Susan Burgess
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 B87 2023
ISBN: 1479819751
Publication Date: 2023-02-21
A compelling explanation of the American public's acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture How did gay people go from being characterized as dangerous perverts to military heroes and respectable parents? How did the interests of the LGBT movement and the state converge to transform mainstream political and legal norms in these areas? Using civil rights narratives, pop culture, and critical theory, LGBT Inclusion in American Life tells the story of how exclusion was transformed into inclusion in US politics and society, as pop culture changed mainstream Americans thinking about "non-gay" issues, namely privacy, sex and gender norms, and family. Susan Burgess explores films such as Casablanca, various James Bond movies, and Julie and Julia, and television shows such as thirtysomething and The Americans, as well as the Broadway sensation Hamilton, as sources of growing popular support for LGBT rights. By drawing on popular culture as a rich source of public understanding, Burgess explains how the greater public came to accept and even support the three central pillars of LGBT freedoms in the post-World War II era: to have consensual adult sex without fear of criminal penalty, to serve openly in the military, and to marry legally. LGBT Inclusion in American Life argues that pop culture can help us to imagine unknown futures that lead beyond what we currently desire from contemporary politics, and in return asks now that the mainstream public has come to accept LGBT freedoms, where might the popular imagination be headed in the future?
Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of America 1979-1986 by Nicholas Blair; Jim Farber (Introduction by)
Call Number: TR681.H65 B53 2023
ISBN: 1648230342
Publication Date: 2023-06-20
The lost world of the “gay paradises” in San Francisco and New York is beautifully documented in this collection of remarkably intimate portraits and street scenes taken by photography activist and chronicler Nicholas Blair from 1979–1986. The lovely, carefree utopia pre-AIDS gay communities offered a long-maligned culture evoke a halcyon existence of peace and acceptance, with only a hint of the dark cloud of the AIDS epidemic looming, and early protests and demands for humane treatment just beginning to take hold. The joy—and pathos—of these tragically lost worlds is beautifully and vibrantly documented in this collection of compelling portraits and street scenes photographed by Nicholas Blair. As a teenager lured to San Francisco from New York—via hitchhiking to Buenos Aires—Blair lived in a hippie-style arts commune just across town from the Castro. With a Leica rangefinder camera loaned to him by a childhood friend, Blair began honing his craft as a photographer amidst the explosion of LGBTQ life that was rapidly eclipsing the hippies as the most visible (and photographable) counter-culture movement of the day. Blair's revealing, evocative, and celebratory photos are a window into the outburst of pent-up celebration and (occasionally) riotous ebullience of theretofore closeted persons who had suddenly felt the door of tolerance opening a crack, and who were now leaning in, hard, to live life openly as their true and genuine selves. As they stand, these historic images are time capsules of a few places in America, where, for the very first time, and for a very short while, it was okay to be gay.
Gay Lives by Robert Aldrich (Contribution by)
Call Number: HQ75.2 .A53 2023
ISBN: 0500297177
Publication Date: 2023-05-16
Gay Lives gives a voice to more than eighty people from all over the world and from all walks of life. It is a fascinating portrait of LGBTQ+ people throughout time, whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as today's varied LGBTQ+ culture. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great, and Harvey Milk are lesser-known but no less surprising individuals: Dong Xian and the Chinese emperor Ai, whose passion flourished in the first century BCE; the unfortunate Robert De Péronne, burned at the stake for sodomy; Katharine Philips, writing protolesbian poetry in seventeenth-century England; and Aimee and Jaguar, whose love defied the death camps of wartime Germany. Often colorful, sometimes tragic, but all in some way extraordinary, these life stories reflect, and have helped shape, contemporary attitudes toward same-sex intimacy. Gay Lives will entertain, give pause for thought, and celebrate the diversity of human history.
The LGBTQ+ History Book by Michael Bronski, Kit Heyam & Valerie Traub (editors)
Call Number: HQ73 .L45 2023
ISBN: 0744070732
Publication Date: 2023-05-09
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions. Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to Kinsey's modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Audre Lorde. Dive deep into the pages of The LGBTQ + History book to discover: -Thought-provoking graphics and flow charts demystify the central concepts behind key moments in LGBTQ+ history, from eromenos and erastes in the Ancient World to political lesbianism. - Features insightful quotes from leading historians, philosophers, cultural commentators, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, activists, and politicians. - Includes biography boxes and directory entries on the lives of important but lesser-known individuals, alongside well-known names including Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Anne Lister, Harvey Milk, and Marsha P. Johnson. - Global in scope with a localizable directory. The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first gender affirmation surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian "Night Police" to the 20th century "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones - the secret language of polari, Black and Latinx ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community - and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century "molly houses" to modern "gaybourhoods." The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the long, proud -and often hidden -history of LGBTQ+ people, cultures, and places from around the world.
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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies by Deborah Peters Amory (editor)
Call Number: Open Textbook Library (eBook)
ISBN: 1438491700
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.
Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism by Marc Stein
Call Number: HQ76.3.U6 S74 2022
ISBN: 0520304306
Publication Date: 2022-03-29
Over the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes in queer public history. A manifesto for renewed partnerships between academic and community-based historians, strengthened linkages between queer public history and LGBT scholarly activism, and increased public support for historical research on gender and sexuality, this anthology reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of queer public history.
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New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption by Clare Summerskill (Editor); Amy Tooth Murphy (Editor); Emma Vickers (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.25 .N489 2022
ISBN: 0367551136
Publication Date: 2022-04-26
The volume takes a field which has become established over the past 40 years, and applies it to a marginalized sector of society, enabling students of oral history, and history more generally to engage with, question and develop new conversations around the field. Oral history is increasingly becoming an established part of the modern history canon and more and more developments within its parameters are being raised and studied - this book represents a key up-coming area. The only book to look specifically at LGBTQ positions and the specific issues it raises within oral history.
LGBTQ Digital Cultures: A Global Perspective by Paromita Pain
Call Number: HQ76.25 .L524 2022
ISBN: 1032050004
Publication Date: 2022-06-01
Emphasizing an intersectional and transnational approach, this collection examines how social media and digital technologies have impacted the sphere of LGBTQ activism, advocacy, education, empowerment, identity, protest, and self-expression. This edited collection adopts a critical and cultural studies perspective to examine queer cyberculture and presence. Through the lens of representation and identity politics, it explores topics such as race, disability, and colonialism, alongside sexuality and gender. The collection examines how digital technologies have made queer cultural production more expansive and how such technological affordances and platforms have enabled queer cultural practices to be more transformational. Bringing together contributors and case studies from different countries, the contributions grapple with the tensions that arise when visibility, hiddenness, renditions of the self, and collective contractions of identity must be negotiated in a variety of global contexts and explores this influence on contemporary political identities. This book provides an essential introduction to LGBTQ digital cultures for students, researchers, and scholars of media, communication, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to activists wanting to learn more about the transformative potential of digital media and technology in LGBTQ advocacy and empowerment around the globe.
The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation by Leslie Cohen
Call Number: HQ75.4.C65 A3 2021
ISBN: 1978825110
Publication Date: 2021-09-17
*Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award .
Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other's eyes. The two women are part of George Segal's iconic sculpture "Gay Liberation," but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York's gay and feminist communities. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women's nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression.
Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell
Call Number: HQ75.2 .C75 2021
ISBN: 1951491076
Publication Date: 2021-11-23
"Unique in both format and content, this important book is a first choice to help diversify teen graphic nonfiction collections." --Starred Review, School Library Journal.
Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for acceptance and how they were inspired by these historical LGBTQIA+ people to live their own truth. Featuring biographies of Mary Jones, We'wha, Magnus Hirschfeld, Dr. Pauli Murray, Wilmer "Little Axe" M. Broadnax, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Carlett Brown, Nancy Cardenas, Ifti Nasim, and Simon Nkoli.
Elite-Led Mobilization and Gay Rights: Dispelling the Myth of Mass Opinion Backlash by Benjamin George Bishin; Thomas Joseph Hayes; Matthew Benjamin Incantalupo; Charles Anthony Smith
Call Number: HQ76.8.U6 B57 2021
ISBN: 0472132709
Publication Date: 2021-09-30
Media and scholastic accounts describe a strong public opinion backlash-a sharply negative and enduring opinion change-against attempts to advance gay rights. Academic research, however, increasingly questions backlash as an explanation for opposition to LGBT rights. The authors of Elite-led Mobilization and Gay Rights argue that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization-a strategy used by anti-gay elites, primarily white evangelicals, seeking to prevent the full incorporation of LGBT Americans in the polity in order to achieve political objectives and increase their political power. This book defines and tests the theory of Mass Opinion Backlash and develops and tests the theory of Elite-Led Mobilization by employing a series of online and natural experiments, surrounding the Supreme Court rulings in Obergefell and Windsor, and President Obama's position change on gay marriage. The authors employ extensive survey, voting behavior, and campaign finance data, and examine the history of the LGBT movement and its opposition by religious conservatives, from the Lavender Scare, to the campaign against Trans Rights in the defeat of Houston's 2015 HERO ordinance, to evaluate these theories. Finally, this book examines what is widely considered the textbook case of anti-gay backlash: the 2010 Iowa Judicial Retention Election. Taken together, the evidence shows that opposition to LGBT rights is a top down process incited by anti-gay elites rather than a bottom up process described by public opinion backlash.
Queer Between the Covers: Histories of Queer Publishing and Publishing Queer Voices by Leila Kassir (Editor); Richard Espley (Editor)
Call Number: PN56.H57 Q44155 2021
ISBN: 1913002047
Publication Date: 2021-06-21
Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. Chronicling the gay struggle for acceptance and liberation, the book demonstrates how the fight for representation was often waged between the covers of books in a world where spaces for queer expression were taboo. The chapters provide an array of voices and histories from the famous, Derek Jarman and Oscar Wilde, to the lesser known and underappreciated, such as John Wieners and Valerie Taylor. It includes firsthand accounts of seminal moments in queer history, including the birth of Hazard Press and the Defend Gay's the Word Bookshop campaign in the 1980s. Queer Between the Covers demonstrates the importance of the book and how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature. The works discussed show the imaginative and radical ways in which queer texts have fought against censorship and repression and could be used as a political tool for organization and production.
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Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance by Syan Rose; Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Foreword by)
Call Number: HQ76.5 .R67 2021
ISBN: 1551528150
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organisers, artists, healers, comrades, and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power, love, pain, and magic to create a textured and nuanced portrait of queer and trans realities in America.
LGBTQ Life in America: Examining the Facts by Melissa R. Michelson; Brian F. Harrison
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 M53 2022
ISBN: 1440875057
Publication Date: 2021-12-06
This indispensable book debunks common myths and misconceptions about the LGBTQ community while providing accurate information about LGBTQ people, their successes and shared history, and the current challenges they face in American society. This book provides readers with a clear and unbiased understanding of what it means to be LGBTQ in the United States in the 2020s. Beginning with the origins of LGBTQ identity and history, the book addresses the current status of the LGBTQ community; gender expectations and performance in American culture; transgender and non-binary identity; behaviors and outcomes associated with LGBTQ people; and, finally, diversity within the LGBTQ community. Utilizing authoritative sources and lay-friendly definitions and explanations, this work punctures myths, misconceptions, and incorrect assumptions about sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expectations and norms. In addition, it provides an illuminating record of the history of discrimination and mistreatment to which LGBTQ people have historically been subjected in the U.S. At a time when information itself is increasingly fraught in American political discourse, this book provides facts and context for the most important questions facing LGBTQ Americans, past, present, and future. *Also eBook (UC users only)
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex by Finn Mackay
Call Number: HQ75.5 .M33 2021
ISBN: 0755606647
Publication Date: 2021-10-21
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Transgender and trans rights movements are currently experiencing political backlash from within certain lesbian and lesbian feminist groups, resulting in a situation in which these two minority communities are frequently pitted against one another or perceived as diametrically opposed. Uniquely, Finn Mackay approaches this debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and transmasculine lesbian masculinities. There has been increasing interest in the study of masculinity, influenced by a popular discourse around so-called 'toxic masculinity', the rise of men's rights activism and theory and critical work on Trump's America and the MeToo movement. An increasingly important topic in political science and sociological academia, this book aims to break new ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity.
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Call Number: HQ76.3.G72 .L656 2021
ISBN: 0316458732
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what's being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history. Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call; the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression--whatever your scene, whoever you're seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today's fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out--and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity--a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.
Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives by Stephen M. Engel; Timothy S. Lyle
Call Number: HQ76.25 .E54 2021
ISBN: 1479852031
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the "equal dignity" of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity--and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms--became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential. Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good. They expose the constraining work it accomplishes and the exclusionary ideas about respectability that it promotes. To restore a lost past and point to a more inclusive future, they assert the worthiness of queer lives beyond dignity's limits.
The Case for Gay Reparations by Omar G. Encarnación
Call Number: HQ76.45.U5 E53 2021
ISBN: 0197535666
Publication Date: 2021-06-01
A compelling and timely vision for gay reparations in the United StatesIn the last two decades many nations have adopted "gay reparations," or policies intended to make amends for a history of discrimination, stigmatization, and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Far from being a homogenous or uniform phenomenon, gay reparations encompass a small constellation of approaches including a formal apology to the LGBT community for past wrongdoing, financial compensation for victims of anti-LGBT laws and actions, and the erection of monuments to the memory of those who suffered because of structural homophobia. The United States, however,has been reluctant to embrace gay reparations, making the country something of an outlier among Western democracies. Beyond making the case for gay reparations in the United States, this book explores a wide range of questions provoked by the rise of the gay reparations movement. Among these questions, three stand out for what they reveal about the puzzling and complex nature of this new front in the struggle for LGBT equality. Why, after centuries of attempts to marginalize, dehumanize, and even eradicate LGBT people, are governments coming around to confront this dark and painful historical legacy? How do we make sense of the diversity of gay reparations being implemented by governments around the world? And, finally, what would an American policy of gay reparations look like? Omar G. Encarnacion draws upon the rich history of reparations to confront the legacies of genocide, slavery, and political repression and argues that gay reparations are a moral obligation intended to restore dignity to those whose human rights have been violated because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Reparations are also necessary to close painful chapters of anti-LGBT discrimination and violence and to remind future generations of past struggles for LGBT equality. To this end, he traces America's dark and painful LGBT history - from colonial-era laws criminalizing homosexual conduct, to a postwar ban on homosexuals working in the federal bureaucracy, to the government's support of the junk-science underpinning the practice of "gay conversion" therapy promoted by the Christian Right.The book also examines how other Western democracies notorious for their repression of homosexuals - specifically Spain, Britain, and Germany - have implemented gay reparations. These foreign experiences reveal potential pathways for gay reparations in the United States. More importantly, they show that while there is no universal approach to gay reparations it is never too late for countries to seek to right past wrongs.
LGBTQ Lobbying in the United States by Christopher L. Pepin-Neff
Call Number: HQ73.73.U6 P47 2021
ISBN: 9781000391213
Publication Date: 2021-05-26
LGBTQ Lobbying in the United States argues that the issues and tactics prioritized by the mainstream gay lobbying community fail to serve LGBTQ interests and are complicit in perpetuating heteronormative power dynamics and institutions that render queer and trans people vulnerable to structural oppression. The book posits that there are different LGBTQ lobbying communities--a dominant gay mainstream lobbying category, whose work advances heteronormative ideals, and a second category of LGBTQ lobbying that is intersectional and challenges hegemonic heterosexual institutions. Analysis in the book builds on existing public policy literature and is aided by the author's practitioner experience in lobbying for LGBTQ issues in Washington, D.C. over the past 20 years.
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle by Christopher T. Conner (Editor, Contribution by); Daniel Okamura (Editor, Contribution by).
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 G39435 2021
ISBN: 1793609837
Publication Date: 2021-03-31
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. Gay urban enclaves, known colloquially as gayborhoods, illustrate the evolution of LGBT+ political capacity building. Since their emergence after World War II, gayborhoods have homogenized at the expense of women, transgender, and nonwhite persons due to neoliberal policies promoted by urban planners. Thus, their popularization and economic vitality correlate with a loss of collective identity and space for some inhabitants. While gayborhoods were once diverse and inclusive spaces that rejected normative institutions of marriage and assimilation into dominant society, the stakeholders of these areas have now unashamedly aligned themselves with conformity and profitability to legitimize their existence. The contributors within The Gayborhood invite readers to reflect on the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods to the communities and aspirations within.
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence by Alex Bitterman (Editor); Daniel Baldwin Hess (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.96 .L54 2021
ISBN: 3030660729
Publication Date: 2021-03-20
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or 'gayborhoods') from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay neighborhoods. Social and cultural shifts within gay neighborhoods are used as a framework for understanding the decades-long struggle for LGBTQ+ rights and equality. Resulting from gentrification, weakening social stigma, and enhanced rights for LGBTQ+ people, gay neighborhoods have recently become "less gay," following a 50-year period of resilience. Meanwhile, other neighborhoods are becoming "more gay," due to changing preferences of LGBTQ+ individuals and a propensity for LGBTQ+ families to form community in areas away from established gayborhoods. The current 'plateau' in the evolution of gay neighborhoods is characterized by generational differences--between Baby Boom pioneers and Millennials who favour broad inclusivity--signaling various possible trajectories for the future 'afterlife' of these important LGBTQ+ urban spaces. The complicating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic provides a point of comparison for lessons learned from gay neighborhoods and the LGBTQ+ community that bravely endured the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in various disciplines--including sociology, social work, anthropology, gender and sexuality, LGTBQ+ and queer studies, as well as urban geography, architecture, and city planning--and to policymakers and advocates concerned with LGBTQ+ rights and social justice.
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Social Equity and LGBTQ Rights: Dismantling Discrimination and Expanding Civil Rights by Lorenda A. Naylor
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 N38 2021
ISBN: 0815380305
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Can a baker refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple? Despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision guaranteeing marriage equality in 2015, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) citizens in the United States continue to be discriminated against in fundamental areas that others take for granted as a legal right. Using social equity theory and intersectionality but written in an accessible style, this book demonstrates some of the ways in which LGBTQ citizens have been marginalized for their identity and argues that the field of public administration has a unique responsibility to prioritize social equity. Categories utilized by the U.S. Census Bureau (male or female, heterosexual or homosexual), for example, must shift to a continuum to accurately capture demographic characteristics and citizen behavior. Evidenced-based outcomes and disparities between cisgender and heterosexual and LGBTQ populations are carefully delineated to provide a legal rationale for a compelling governmental interest, and policy recommendations are provided - including overdue federal legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBTQ Culture: The Changing Landscape by Bruce E. Drushel, editor
Call Number: HQ73 .L436 2021
ISBN: 0367634945
Publication Date: 2021
Recent decades have seen remarkable changes in the cultural visibility, legal status, and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, from positive representations of queerness in television series like The L-Word and Will & Grace, to films about queer intersectionality like Moonlight, to openly-gay and lesbian elected officials and leaders in the business community, to the end of anti-sodomy laws and marriage discrimination. With these advances have come assimilation of the queer subculture into the mainstream and, with it, loss of both some of the stigmatization of non-heteronormativity and the very cornerstones of the distinctiveness of LGBTQ+ communities, including queer neighbourhoods, bars and nightclubs, bookstores, publications, and other queer businesses. Queer couples and their children are migrating from LGBTQ+ enclaves to neighbourhoods with better schools, queer singles meet in virtual spaces rather than in bars, and LGBTQ+ bookstores and community centres, once the hub of queer communities, are closing, replaced by Amazon.com and social media. These changes raise the question of how LGBTQ+ culture is changing and whether, like many assimilated subcultures before it, it may be in fact endangered. This book examines these seismic changes, their sociological and cultural implications, reminisces about what has been lost and gained, and hints at what the future may hold for LGBTQ+ people.
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney
Call Number: HQ75.5 .M44 2020
ISBN: 9781478007821
Publication Date: 2020-08-07
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourceful techniques for generating and sharing knowledge.
Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State since the 1970s by Jonathan Bell (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 B47 2020
ISBN: 0812251857
Publication Date: 2020-03-20
In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politics. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s made the battles for access to welfare, health care, and social services for HIV-positive Americans, many of them gay men, a critically important story in the changing relationship between sexual minorities and the government. The 1980s and 1990s marked a period in which religious right attacks on the civil rights of minorities, including LGBT people, offered opportunities for activists to create campaigns that could mobilize a base in mainstream politics and contribute to the gradual legitimization of sexual minorities in American society. Beyond the Politics of the Closet features essays by historians whose work on LGBT history delves into the decades between the mid-1970s and the millennium, a period in which the relationship between activist networks, the state, capitalism, and political parties became infinitely more complicated. Examining the crucial relationship between sexuality, race, and class, the volume highlights the impact gay rights politics and activism have had on the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions of the 1960s. The three sections of Beyond the Politics of the Closet conceptualize LGBT politics both chronologically and thematically. The first section highlights the ways in which the immediate post-rights revolution period created new demands on the part of sexual minorities for social services, especially in health care and housing. The second examines the impact of the AIDS crisis on different aspects of national and local LGBT politics. The last section considers how analyzing LGBT politics can reorient our understanding of "the closet" and illuminate the challenges for those seeking to integrate questions of sexual rights into broader political narratives, whether of the left or the right.
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The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate by Jeannie Gainsburg
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 G35 2020
ISBN: 1538139405
Publication Date: 2020-03-18
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: -Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language -Tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you -LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations -Common bloopers to avoid -Tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations -Suggestions for addressing common questions and concerns -Actions for creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces -Recommendations for self-care and sustainable allyship This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as parents who want to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to create more confident, active allies who are effective advocates for change. This informative, entertaining, and supportive guidebook will surely jump-start even the most tentative ally.
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation by Erin Mayo-Adam
Call Number: HQ73.73.U6 M39 2020
ISBN: 9781503610354
Publication Date: 2020-07-14
A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts within each rights movement. Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists in the United States, revealing how these new alliances impact political movement formation. In the early 2000s, the LGBTQ and immigrant rights movements operated separately from and, sometimes, in a hostile manner towards each other. Since 2008, by contrast, major alliances have formed at the national and state level across these communities. Yet, this new coalition formation came at a cost. Today, coalitions across these communities have been largely reluctant to address issues of police brutality, mass incarceration, economic inequality, and the ruthless immigrant regulatory complex. Queer Alliances examines the extent to which grassroots groups bridged historic divisions based on race, gender, class, and immigration status through the development of coalitions, looking specifically at coalition building around expanding LGBTQ rights in Washington State and immigrant and migrant rights in Arizona. Erin Mayo-Adam traces the evolution of political movement formation in each state, and shows that while the movements expanded, they simultaneously ossified around goals that matter to the most advantaged segments of their respective communities. Through a detailed, multi-method study that involves archival research and in-depth interviews with organization leaders and advocates, Queer Alliances centers local, coalition-based mobilization across and within multiple movements rather than national campaigns and court cases that often occur at the end of movement formation. Mayo-Adam argues that the construction of common political movement narratives and a shared core of opponents can help to explain the paradoxical effects of coalition formation. On the one hand, the development of shared political movement narratives and common opponents can expand movements in some contexts. On the other hand, the episodic nature of rights-based campaigns can simultaneously contain and undermine movement expansion, reinforcing movement divisions. Mayo-Adam reveals the extent to which inter- and intra-movement coalitions, formed to win rights or thwart rights losses, represent and serve intersectionally marginalized communities--who are often absent from contemporary accounts of social movement formation.
A Change Is Gonna Come: How to have effective political conversations in a divided America by Brian F. Harrison
Call Number: HN59.2 .H376 2020
ISBN: 9780190939557
Publication Date: 2020-04-01
Get your head out of your @*and. Snowflake. Stupid liberal. Ignorant conservative. There is much discussion today about the decline in civility in American politics. Couple this phenomenon with the fracturing and hardening of political attitudes, and one might wonder how deliberativedemocracy, much less political civility, can survive if we can't even talk to people with whom we disagree. Insults are thrown, feelings are hurt, and family and friends, at best, decide to avoid political discussions altogether. At worst, arguments cause social groups to break apart. How candeliberative democracy survive if we can't even speak to people with whom we disagree?As this book argues, we need a new way to discuss politics, one that encourages engagement and room for dissent. One way to approach this challenge is to consider how public opinion changes. By and large, public opinion is sticky and change occurs very slowly; one exception to this is the morerecent and significant change in public opinion toward LGBTQ rights and marriage equality. The marriage equality movement is considered one of the great success stories of political advocacy, but why was it so successful? Brian F. Harrison argues that one of the most powerful reasons is that a broadrange of marriage equality advocates were willing to engage in contentious and sometimes uncomfortable discussion about their opinions on the matter. They started everyday conversations that got people out of their echo chambers and encouraged them to start listening and thinking. But the questionremains, if simple conversation can work in one arena, can it work in others? And how and where does one approach such conversation?Drawing from social psychology, communication studies, and political science, as well as personal narratives and examples, A Change is Gonna Come reflects on the last fifteen years of LGBTQ advocacy to propose practical ways to approach informal political conversation on a variety of contentiousissues. This book seeks to answer the seemingly simple question: how can we be politically civil to each other again?

LGBT Rights Movement/History: 2010-2019

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor; Joshua Lyon
Call Number: HQ75.4.W57 A3 2019
ISBN: 1250195136
Publication Date: 2019-10-08
A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism.
Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges by Elizabeth Evans (Editor); Eléonore Lépinard (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1155 .I68 2020
ISBN: 9780367257859
Publication Date: 2019-12-12
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege. The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within feminist and queer movements: it is used as a collective identity, as a strategy for forming coalitions, and as a repertoire for inclusivity. The case studies presented in this book then evaluate the extent to which some, or all, of these types of intersectional activism are used to confront manifestations of privilege. Drawing upon a wide range of cases from across time and space, this volume explores the difficulties with which activists often grapple when it comes to translating the desire for intersectionality into a praxis which confronts privilege. Addressing inter-related and politically relevant questions concerning how we apply and theorise intersectionality in our studies of feminist and queer movements, this timely edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities with an interest in gender and feminism, LGBT+ and queer studies, and social movement studies.
Identities and Place: Changing Labels and Intersectional Communities of LGBTQ and Two-Spirit People in the United States by Katherine Crawford-Lackey (Editor); Megan E. Springate (Editor)
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 I34 2020
ISBN: 1789204798
Publication Date: 2019-11-01
With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and the places associated with these communities. Authors explore how queer identities are connected with specific places: places where people gather, socialize, protest, mourn, and celebrate. The focus is a deeper look at how sexually variant and gender non-conforming Americans constructed identity, created communities, and fought to have rights recognized by the government. Each chapter is accompanied by prompts and activities that invite readers to think critically and immerse themselves in the subject matter while working collaboratively with others.
Preservation and Place by Katherine Crawford-Lackey (Editor); Megan E. Springate (Editor)
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 P74 2019
ISBN: 9781789203066
Publication Date: 2019-09-04
Significant historic and archaeological sites affiliated with two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history in the United States are examined in this unique volume. The importance of the preservation process in documenting and interpreting the lives and experiences of queer Americans is emphasized. The book features chapters on archaeology and interpretation, as well as several case studies focusing on queer preservation projects. The accessible text and associated activities create an interactive and collaborative process that encourages readers to apply the material in a hands-on setting.
The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from LGBTQ Adversary to Ally by Carlos A. Ball
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 B35 2019
ISBN: 0807026344
Publication Date: 2019-11-12
What do Apple, Coca Cola, Google, Wal-Mart and Dow Chemical have in common? Aside from being a few of the nation's largest employers, they are among the nearly 400 companies to file an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the seminal Obergefell v Hodges case explaining that discrimination against LGBT people was harmful to business. Legal scholar Carlos Ball tells the story of how LGBT rights activism aimed at corporations during the twentieth century helped turn them from enterprises either indifferent to or openly hostile toward LGBT equality and into reliable and powerful allies of their movement. From the street protests, "zap actions," and boycott of the Coors Brewing Company in the 1970s, the AIDS activism directed at pharmaceutical companies in the 1980s, and the push for nondiscrimination policies and domestic partnership benefits in the 1990s, LGBT activism changed corporate America's understanding and treatment of LGBT people. By the time LGBT rights issues exploded onto the national scene in the 2000s, corporations were frequently and vigorously promoting LGBT equality both within their own institutions and in the public sphere. At a time when the LGBT movement is facing considerable political backlash, The Queering of Corporate America complicates the narrative of corporate conservatism, and provides insights into the future of the legal, political, and cultural implications of this unexpected relationship.
Pride: the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement by Christopher Measom
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M432 2019
ISBN: 145493655X
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
This lavishly illustrated book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and is an inspiring photographic journey through the LGBTQ+ Pride movement over the last century. "A stirring history of the LGBTQ Pride movement." --Publishers Weekly This celebratory book is the most in-depth visual tribute to the LGBTQ+ pride movement ever created. The story starts in the bohemian subculture of post-World War I American cities. Author Christopher Measom next covers the influence of World War II, which relocated millions of people to single-sex barracks and factories, encouraging a freedom and anonymity that helped spark the formation of gay communities after the war. The repressive '50s era saw the launch of two important rights organizations, the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, that led to the rebellions of the 1960s--culminating in the game-changing Stonewall Uprising of June 1969. The book then explores the devastation of the AIDS crisis, its impact on gay culture, and the fight to bring awareness to the disease. The narrative is brought up to the present day with coverage of the struggles for equality in marriage, the military, and beyond--and the push for gender rights. With more than 120 photos, posters, artworks, ads, and other rarely seen memorabilia; profiles of icons in the movement such as Christine Jorgensen, Marsha P. Johnson, Harry Hay, and Stormé DeLarverie; excerpts from key news reports; speeches by leading activists and political figures including Harvey Milk, Urvashi Vaid, and Barack Obama; and passages from important dramatic, musical, and literary works such as Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, this book is a groundbreaking homage to a historic movement and its milestone achievements and hurdles.
Pride: Fifty Years of Parades and Protests by Adam Nagourney (Introduction by); New York Times Staff
Call Number: Law Library Williams Institute Reading Room Call Number: HQ76.965.G38 P75 2019
ISBN: 1419737929
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
PRIDE is a photography book capturing the parades and protests in the gay community, with publication set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which took place on June 28, 1969. On June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago commemorating the anniversary of the riots. Similar marches were organized in other cities--acting as both a celebration of gay culture and an activist movement for equal rights under the law. The book will be an inspiring visual history documenting the resilience of a marginalized group and their fight for civil rights. As gay rights in both America and the world have evolved, the scenes capturing the parade have as well--through signs, dress, and expressions of freedom and love, this book also tells the story of the ever-changing culture of a people. It is a book about celebration, oppression, hope, recognition, and, above all, pride in being who you are.
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 F86 2019
ISBN: 0062571702
Publication Date: 2019-05-21
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or friends, frequently under the threat of violence and persecution. By shining a light on these remarkable stories of bravery and determination, THE BOOK OF PRIDE not only honors an important chapter in American history, but also empowers young people today (both LGBTQ and straight) to discover their own courage in order to create positive change. Furthermore, it serves a critically important role in ensuring the history of the LGBTQ movement can never be erased, inspiring us to resist all forms of oppression with ferocity, community, and, most importantly, pride.
*SEE also the companion website, Out Words Archive, for a full collection of interviews, videos, transcripts, portraits, and personal photos.
We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Leighton Brown; Matthew Riemer
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 R495 2019
ISBN: 0399581812
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
Through the lens of pride, protest, and progress, We Are Everywhere is a visual record and celebration of LGBTQ+ identity, life, modern history, and the queer liberation movement. Tracing queer history from the early 20th century before the 1969 Stonewall riots to today, this beautifully packaged book contains thousands of photos and pieces of ephemera with detailed captions that tell the story of the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights. The vintage and contemporary images cover every aspect of queer life and liberation, including pride marches and protests, the AIDS crisis, queer family life, personal snapshots from notable and regular people, drag queens, celebrations, reactions to important legal decisions, marriage equality, and more.
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Roxane Gay; Diana Davies; Kay Tobin Lahusen
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 L68 2019
ISBN: 1324002069
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
A ragtag group of women protesting behind a police line in the rain. A face in a crowd holding a sign that says, "Hi Mom, Guess What!" at a gay rights rally. Two lovers kissing under a tree. These indelible images are among the thousands housed in the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of 1960s and '70s LGBTQ history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies. Lahusen is a pioneering photojournalist who captured pivotal moments in the LGBTQ civil rights movement. Davies, in turn, is one of the most important photojournalists who documented gay, lesbian, and trans liberation, as well as civil rights, feminist, and antiwar movements.This powerful collection--which captures the energy, humor, and humanity of the groundbreaking protests that surrounded the Stonewall Riots--celebrates the diversity of this rights movement, both in the subjects of the photos and by presenting Lahusen and Davies' distinctive work and perspectives in conversation with each other. A preface, captions, and part introductions from curator Jason Baumann provide illuminating historical context. And an introduction from Roxane Gay, best-selling author of Hunger, speaks to the continued importance of these iconic photos of resistance.
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S753 2019
ISBN: 147981685X
Publication Date: 2019-05-07
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.
The Stonewall Reader by New York Public Library Staff; Edmund White (Foreword by); Jason Baumann (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S77 2019
ISBN: 0143133519
Publication Date: 2019-04-30
28 June 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of firsthand accounts, diaries, periodic literature and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Most importantly, this anthology shines a light on forgotten figures who were pivotal in the movement, such as Lee Brewster, head of the Queens Liberation Front and Ernestine Eckstine, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s.
Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence by Darius Bost
Call Number: HQ76.27.A37 B688 2019
ISBN: 022658982X
Publication Date: 2018-12-21
*At Young Research Library.
Evidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a series of unsolved murders, seemingly abandoned by the government and mainstream culture. Yet in this darkest of moments, a new vision of community and hope managed to emerge. Darius Bost's account of the media, poetry, and performance of this time and place reveals a stunning confluence of activism and the arts. In Washington and New York during the 1980s and '90s, gay black men banded together, using creative expression as a tool to challenge the widespread views that marked them as unworthy of grief. They created art that enriched and reimagined their lives in the face of pain and neglect, while at the same time forging a path toward bold new modes of existence. At once a corrective to the predominantly white male accounts of the AIDS crisis and an openhearted depiction of the possibilities of black gay life, Evidence of Being above all insists on the primacy of community over loneliness, and hope over despair.
One-Dimensional Queer by Roderick A. Ferguson
Call Number: HQ76.5 .F47 2019
ISBN: 1509523553
Publication Date: 2018-12-10
The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Myrl Beam
Call Number: HD2798.M58 B43 2018
ISBN: 1517901790
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere's expansion has helped--and hindered--the LGBT cause. What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That is the question at the heart of this bold reassessment of the system's massive expansion since the mid-1960s. Focusing on the LGBT movement, Myrl Beam argues that the conservative turn in queer movement politics, as exemplified by the shift toward marriage and legal equality, is due mostly to the movement's embrace of the nonprofit structure. Based on oral histories as well as archival research, and drawing on the author's own extensive activist work, Gay, Inc. presents four compelling case studies. Beam looks at how people at LGBT nonprofits in Minneapolis and Chicago grapple with the contradictions between radical queer social movements and their institutionalized iterations. Through interview subjects' incisive, funny, and heartbreaking commentaries, Beam exposes a complex world of committed people doing the best they can to effect change, and the flawed structures in which they participate, rail against, ignore, and make do. Providing a critical look at a social formation whose sanctified place in the national imagination has for too long gone unquestioned, Gay, Inc. marks a significant contribution to scholarship on sexuality, neoliberalism, and social movements.
*Also available as an eBook (UC users only): Gay, Inc.
My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton
Call Number: HQ75.4.N49 A3 2018
ISBN: 1478001291
Publication Date: 2018-11-16
During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she "became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders," and that her "child body was a strong and capable instrument stuffed into the word 'girl.'" Later, in early adulthood, as she was on her way to becoming a trailblazing figure in gay and lesbian studies, she "had already chosen higher education over the strongest passion in my life, my love for women, because the two seemed incompatible." In My Butch Career Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a "normal," straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College--despite having written the foundational Mother Camp--and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes the influence her father Saul's strong masculinity had on her, her introduction to middle-class gay life, and her love affairs--including one with a well-known abstract painter and another with a French academic she met on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mexico and with whom she traveled throughout France and Switzerland. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of just how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.
Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life by Dianna Hunter
Call Number: S521.5.A2 H86 2018
ISBN: 1517902665
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
A wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s. Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story--a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and '70s before landing on a dairy farm. A bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as--by way of the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism--she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation--and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don't. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. A firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, Wild Mares is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland.
*Also available as an ebook (UC users only): Wild Mares
The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts by Andrew E. Stoner
Call Number: PN4874.S475 S76 2019
ISBN: 0252042484
Publication Date: 2019-05-30
As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/AIDS but gay culture and liberation. In-depth and dramatic, Andrew E. Stoner's biography follows the remarkable life of the brash, pioneering journalist. Shilts's reporting on AIDS in San Francisco broke barriers even as other gay writers and activists ridiculed his overtures to the mainstream and labeled him a traitor to the movement, charges the combative Shilts forcefully answered. Behind the scenes, Shilts overcame career-threatening struggles with alcohol and substance abuse to achieve the notoriety he had always sought, while the HIV infection he had purposely kept hidden began to take his life. Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author.
Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation by Perry N. Halkitis
Call Number: HQ76.2.U5 H334 2019
ISBN: 019068660X
Publication Date: 2019-06-03
The civil rights of LGBTQ people have slowly yet steadily strengthened since the Stonewall Riots of June, 1969. Despite enormous opposition from some political segments and the catastrophic effects of the AIDS crisis, the last five decades have witnessed improvement in the conditions of the lives of LGBTQ individuals in the United States. As such, the realities and challenges faced by a young gay man coming of age and coming out in the 1960s is, in many profound ways, different from the experiences of a young gay man coming of age and coming out today. Out in Time explores the life experiences of three generations of gay men --the Stonewall, AIDS, and Queer generations-- arguing that while there are generational differences in the lived experiences of young gay men, each one confronts its own unique historical events, realities, and socio-political conditions, there are consistencies across time that define and unify the identity formation of gay men. Guided by the vast research literature on gay identity formation and coming out, the ideas and themes explored here are seen through the oral histories of a diverse set of fifteen gay men, five from each generation. Out in Time demonstrates how early life challenges define and shape the life courses of gay men, demarcating both the specific time-bound challenges encountered by each generation, and the universal challenges encountered by gay men coming of age across all generations and the conditions that define their lives.
Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics by Brett Krutzsch
Call Number: HQ75.7 .K78 2019
ISBN: 0190685212
Publication Date: 2019-03-08
On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before had a gay citizen's murder elicited such widespread outrage or concern from straight Americans. In Dying to Be Normal, Brett Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians. Through an examination of publicly mourned gay deaths, Krutzsch counters the common perception that LGBT politics and religion have been oppositional and reveals how gay activists used religion to bolster the argument that gays are essentially the same as straights, and therefore deserving of equal rights. Krutzsch's analysis turns to the memorialization of Shepard, Harvey Milk, Tyler Clementi, Brandon Teena, and F. C. Martinez, to campaigns like the It Gets Better Project, and national tragedies like the Pulse nightclub shooting to illustrate how activists used prominent deaths to win acceptance, influence political debates over LGBT rights, and encourage assimilation. Throughout, Krutzsch shows how, in the fight for greater social inclusion, activists relied on Christian values and rhetoric to portray gays as upstanding Americans. As Krutzsch demonstrates, gay activists regularly reinforced a white Protestant vision of acceptable American citizenship that often excluded people of color, gender-variant individuals, non-Christians, and those who did not adhere to Protestant Christianity's sexual standards. The first book to detail how martyrdom has influenced national debates over LGBT rights, Dying to Be Normal establishes how religion has shaped gay assimilation in the United States and the mainstreaming of particular gays as "normal" Americans.
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 C36 2018
ISBN: 0807019410
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
This 21st-century activist's guide to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender carves out a path to collective liberation. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders.
The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture by Peter Hart-Brinson
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H3697 2018
ISBN: 1479800511
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
How did gay marriage--something unimaginable two decades ago--come to feel inevitable to even its staunchest opponents? Drawing on over 95 interviews with two generations of Americans, as well as historical analysis and public opinion data, Peter Hart-Brinson argues that a fundamental shift in our understanding of homosexuality sparked the generational change that fueled gay marriage's unprecedented rise. Hart-Brinson shows that the LGBTQ movement's evolution and tactical responses to oppression caused Americans to reimagine what it means to be gay and what gay marriage would mean to society at large. While older generations grew up imagining gays and lesbians in terms of their behavior, younger generations came to understand them in terms of their identity. Over time, as the older generation and their ideas slowly passed away, they were replaced by a new generational culture that brought gay marriage to all fifty states. Through revealing interviews, Hart-Brinson explores how different age groups embrace, resist, and create society's changing ideas about gay marriage. Religion, race, contact with gay people, and the power of love are all topics that weave in and out of these fascinating accounts, sometimes influencing opinions in surprising ways. The book captures a wide range of voices from diverse social backgrounds at a critical moment in the culture wars, right before the turn of the tide. The story of gay marriage's rapid ascent offers profound insights about how the continuous remaking of the population through birth and death, mixed with our personal, biographical experiences of our shared history and culture, produces a society that is continually in flux and constantly reinventing itself anew. An intimate portrait of social change with national implications, The Gay Marriage Generation is a significant contribution to our understanding of what causes generational change and how gay marriage became the reality in the United States.
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
Call Number: HV6250.4.H66 F54 2018
ISBN: 1631491644
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic--families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors' needs--revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.
My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years (Second Edition) by Sarah Schulman
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 S38 2019
ISBN: 113856351X
Publication Date: 2018-08-17
Sarah Schulman's writing is bold, provocative and refreshingly unrepentant. My American History combines critical commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles, letters, interviews and reports in which the author traces the development of lesbian and gay politics in the US. In her coverage of these many tireless campaigns of activism and resistance, Sarah Schulman documents a powerful political history that most people - gay or straight - never knew happened. For this Second Edition, Urvashi Vaid has contributed a brand new Preface which argues for the continued relevance of Schulman's writing to activism in the 21st Century, particularly in light of the rise of the right in American politics. Also included are a selection of articles by Sarah Schulman for Womanews, in their original format, with illustrations by Alison Bechdel. The book closes with an interview with Sarah Schulman, conducted by Steven Thrasher, especially for this new edition, in which the author reflects on AIDS and homophobia during the Reagan/Bush administrations in relation to AIDS and homophobia at the dawn of the Trump era. My American History is a collection that gives voice to both the personal and poltical struggles of feminist and lesbian and gay communities in the 1980s. It is an important historical record that will enlighten and inform activists, as well as academics and researchers of Women's, Gender and Sexuality studies, in the 21st century.
Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation by Pam Mitchell
Call Number: HQ76.5 .P56 2018
ISBN: 1788732340
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
*Reprint; originally published in 1980.
"To link socialism and lesbianism is to link the unpopular with the taboo." Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and lesbians is not an isolated case, and therefore their struggle is necessarily part of a larger movement for social liberation. And second, that the experience of gays and lesbians uphold the basic tenants of a foundational marxism, and that they are uniquely placed to contribute to a revitalization of marxist theory.
The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976-1988 by Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ75.8.D82 A3 2018
ISBN: 0822370700
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
For many, the death of a parent marks a low point in their personal lives. For Martin Duberman--a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies--the death of his mother was just the beginning of what became a twelve-year period filled with despair, drug addiction, and debauchery. From his cocaine use, massive heart attack, and immersion into New York's gay hustler scene to experiencing near-suicidal depression and attending rehab, The Rest of It is the previously untold and revealing story of how Duberman managed to survive his turbulent personal life while still playing leading roles in the gay community and the academy. Despite the hardships, Duberman managed to be incredibly productive: he wrote his biography of Paul Robeson, rededicated himself to teaching, wrote plays, and coedited the prize-winning Hidden from History. His exploration of new paths of scholarship culminated in his founding of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, thereby inaugurating a new academic discipline. At the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic Duberman increased his political activism, and in these pages he also describes the tensions between the New Left and gay organizers, as well as the profound homophobia that created the conditions for queer radical activism. Filled with gossip, featuring cameo appearances by luminaries such as Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Vivian Gornick, Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millett, and Néstor Almendros, among many others, and most importantly, written with an unflinching and fearless honesty, The Rest of It provides scathing insights into a troubling decade of both personal and political history. It is a stimulating look into a key period of Duberman's life, which until now had been too painful to share.
The Unfinished Queer Agenda after Marriage Equality by Angela Jones (Editor); Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis (Editor); Michael Yarbrough (Editor)
Call Number: HQ73 .U54 2018
ISBN: 1138557536
Publication Date: 2018-04-20
While legal recognition of marriage has met the needs of a segment of the LGBTQ population, many still face daily struggles with issues around housing, education, healthcare, policing and incarceration, and immigration. These are issues that were largely eclipsed in national arenas by the fight for marriage equality. In reaction to this, The Unfinished Queer Agenda After Marriage Equality examines the institutional failings and overlapping systems of injustice that continue to dehumanize queer and trans people and deprive them of basic human rights. Building on a major conference held in 2016 entitled "After Marriage: The Future of LGBTQ Politics and Scholarship", the editors have collected academic papers, edited transcripts of selected conference sessions, and interviews with activists. Drawing from this source material, the book argues that any queer agenda should be informed by an understanding that the issues facing queer and trans people come from the combined influence of neo-liberal capitalism, global white supremacy, and heterosexism. The authors argue that these modes of oppression continue to be especially damaging for poor people, undocumented people, people of color, non-binary, trans, and queer people. By taking an in-depth look at the myriad social issues that continue to affect LGBTQ communities, and by exposing systemic prejudices and inequality as the root cause, this title is an important intervention for students and researchers engaged with queer and trans activism, beyond the fight for marriage equality.
The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds
Call Number: HQ76.5 .R49 2019
ISBN: 0190460954
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
A testament to the power of individuals to impact social change.The gay rights movement has achieved social transformation at a dizzying pace, upending conventional views on sex, love, marriage, the family, and equality itself. While most scholars understand the movement as a broad-based social movement, Andrew Reynolds argues that the most important catalyst of gay rights is often overlooked: individuals. Specifically, openly gay politicians had a critical role in bringing about a more positive attitude towards homosexuality, both among other politicians and the general public. The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. Based on in-depth interviews with more than fifty elected officials and high profile political candidates, Reynolds traces major breakthroughs for the gay rights movement through the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender politicians who advanced the cause. The book documents their successes and failures, heartwarming stories of acceptance and heartbreaking stories of ostracism, demonstrating the ways in which an individual can change the views and voting behaviors of those around him. Reynolds also includes rare vignettes of LGBT leaders in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean who continue to fight for gay rights in spite of threats, violence, and homophobia. Blending personal stories with historical data, Reynolds offers both a compelling portrait of LGBT politicians and a powerful explanation of the importance of identity politics in the success of the gay rights movement.
Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens: Neoliberalism, Postpluralism, and LGBT Organizations by Matthew Dean Hindman
Call Number: JK1118 .H48 2019
ISBN: 0812250672
Publication Date: 2018-11-02
Advocates representing historically disadvantaged groups have long understood the need for strong public relations, effective fundraising, and robust channels of communication with the communities that they serve. Yet the neoliberal era and its infusion of money into the political arena have deepened these imperatives, thus adding new financial hurdles to the long list of obstacles facing minority communities. To respond to these challenges, a professionalized, nonprofit model of political advocacy has steadily gained traction. In many cases, advocacy organizations sought to harness and redirect the radical verve that characterized the protest movements of the 1960s into pragmatic, state-sanctioned approaches to political engagement. In Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens, Matthew Dean Hindman looks at how and why contemporary political advocacy groups have transformed social movements and their participants. Looking to LGBT political movements as an exemplary case study, Hindman explores the advocacy explosion in the United States and its impact on how advocates encourage citizens to understand their role in the political process. He argues that current advocacy groups encourage members of the LGBT community to view themselves as stakeholders in a common struggle for political incorporation. In doing so, however, they often overshadow more imaginative and transformational approaches that could unsettle and challenge straight society and its prevailing political and sexual norms. Advocacy groups carved out a space within a neoliberalizing political process that enabled them to instruct their members, followers, and constituents on serving effectively as industrious political claimants. Political Advocacy and Its Interested Citizens thus sheds light on grassroots politics as it is practiced in present-day America and offers a compelling and original analysis of the ways in which neoliberalism challenges citizens to participate as consumers and investors in the advocacy marketplace.
De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US by Cyril Ghosh
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G56 2018
ISBN: 3319788396
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
This book critically interrogates three sets of distortions that emanate from the messianic core of 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be committed to an emancipatory politics. The second concerns a recent US Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), a judgment that established marriage equality across the 50 states. The third distortion occurs in Kenji Yoshino's theorization of the concept of gay covering. Each distortion produces its own injunction to assimilate, sometimes into the dominant mainstream and, at other times, into the fold of what is axiomatically taken to be the category of the radical. Using a queer theoretic analysis, De-Moralizing Gay Rights argues for the dismantling of each of these three sets of assimilationist injunctions.
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The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion by Jeremiah J. Garretson
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G3575 2018
ISBN: 1479822132
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights, The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally. Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinion--through sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaders--cannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDS crisis was a turning point for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS organizations strategically targeted political and media leaders, normalizing news coverage of LGBTQ issues and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the United States that their lives were valued. The net result was an increase in the number of LGBTQ people who came out and lived their lives openly, and with increased contact with gay people, public attitudes began to warm and change. Garretson goes beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to develop an evidence-based argument for how social movements can alter mass opinion on any contentious topic.
The Routledge History of Queer America by Don Romesburg (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 R697 2018
ISBN: 1138814598
Publication Date: 2018-03-28
The Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, this collection covers topics including: Rural vs. urban queer histories, Gender and sexual diversity in early American history, Intersectionality, exploring queerness in association with issues of race and class, Queerness and American capitalism, The rise of queer histories, archives, and collective memory, and Transnationalism and queer history. Gathering authorities in the field to define the ways in which sexual and gender diversity have contributed to the dynamics of American society, culture and nation, The Routledge History of Queer America is the finest available overview of the rich history of queer experience in US history.
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Defining Documents in American History - LGBTQ+ by Michael Shally-Jensen (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.8.U55 L43 2018
ISBN: 1682178943
Publication Date: 2018-04-11
As gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals have continued their fight for basic rights and equal treatment under the law, various court cases and challenges to those cases have continued to refine the debate. This new resource provides important analyses of over 80 documents significant to LGBTQ rights. (2 volumes)
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: F869.S353 M5453 2018
ISBN: 0300222610
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before finding his calling as a politician, however, Harvey variously tried being a schoolteacher, a securities analyst on Wall Street, a supporter of Barry Goldwater, a Broadway theater assistant, a bead-wearing hippie, the operator of a camera store and organizer of the local business community in San Francisco. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. His early influences and his many personal and professional experiences finally came together when he decided to run for elective office as the forceful champion of gays, racial minorities, women, working people, the disabled, and senior citizens. In his last five years, he focused all of his tremendous energy on becoming a successful public figure with a distinct political voice.
Documents of the LGBT Movement by Chuck Stewart
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 S756 2018
ISBN: 1440855013
Publication Date: 2018-05-25
Beginning from the First People, through the influx of European settlers and the slave trade from Africa, to the modern era, this book presents and discusses documents that reflect pivotal moments in the LGBT rights movement in North America. * Provides a concise yet comprehensive review of the LGBTQ rights movement from the earliest days of human society in what would become the United States to the present * Highlights primary document resources that embrace and reflect the diversity found in the LGBTQ community * Documents how the Gay Rights Movement emerged within an era of widespread antigay persecution, when it would seem that an uprising to achieve equality be least likely.
Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D835 2018
ISBN: 0520298861
Publication Date: 2018-06-08
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the cost--the sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault lines both within and beyond the movements of the past and today, this critical book is also hopeful: Duberman urges us to learn from this history to fight for a truly inclusive and expansive society.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans at Risk: Problems and Solutions by Chuck Stewart
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 L476 2018
ISBN: 1440832358
Publication Date: 2018-02-16
Three volumes organized by the three phases of life--youth, middle age, and old age--explore the LGBTQ+ experience, delving deeply into research on a multitude of hot topics including risks experienced by this sometimes targeted population. * More than forty topics in three volumes are timely and in the news * Each topic is evaluated by academic authorities * References are authoritative and include primary resources * Contributors embrace and reflect the diversity found in the LGBTQ+ community.
Because We Are Human: Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad by Cynthia Burack
Call Number: HQ76.5 .B87 2018
ISBN: 1438470134
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Around the world, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people continue to be threatened, attacked, arrested, tortured, and sometimes executed just for being sexual or gender minorities. Since the final months of the Clinton administration, agencies and officials of the US government have been engaging in programs and projects whose stated purposes are to serve goals of justice and equity for LGBTQ people outside the United States. Because We Are Human gives readers an inside look at US sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) human rights assistance programs. Cynthia Burack explores settings where indigenous and transnational human rights advocates meet to fund and strategize SOGI human rights movements. This book also examines key arguments against these programs, policies, and interventions that originate on both the conservative right and the progressive academic left. Burack ultimately recommends support for a US commitment to SOGI human rights and programs that serve the needs of LGBTQ people.
Global Gay: How Gay Culture is Changing the World by Frédéric Martel; translated by Patsy Baudoin; forward by Michael Bronski
Call Number: HQ76.25 .M36513 2018
ISBN: 0262037815
Publication Date: 2018-04-27
A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world. In Global Gay, Frédéric Martel visits more than fifty countries and documents a revolution underway around the world: the globalization of LGBT rights. From Saudi Arabia to South Africa, from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, from Singapore to the United States, activists, culture warriors, and ordinary people are part of a movement. Martel interviews the proprietor of a "gay-friendly" café in Amman, Jordan; a Cuban-American television journalist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; a South African jurist who worked with Nelson Mandela to enshrine gay rights in the country's constitution; an American lawyer who worked on the campaign for marriage equality; an Egyptian man who fled his country after escaping a raid on a gay club; and many others. He tells us that in China, homosexuality is neither prohibited nor permitted, and that much Chinese gay life takes place on social media; that in Iran, because of the strict separation of the sexes, it seems almost easier to be gay than heterosexual; and that Raul Castro's daughter, a gay rights icon in Cuba, expressed her lingering anti-American sentiments by calling for Pride celebrations in May rather than June. Ten countries maintain the death penalty for homosexuals. "Homophobia is what Arab governments give to Islamists to keep them calm," one activist tells Martel. Martel finds that although the "gay American way of life" has created a global template for gay activism and culture, each country offers distinctly local variations. And around the world, the status of gay rights has become a measure of a country's democracy and modernity. Global Gay has been adapted into an award-winning television documentary. This English edition has been thoroughly revised and updated.
Sister Love: the Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 by Audre Lorde; Pat Parker; Julie R. Enszer (Editor)
Call Number: PS3562.O75 Z48 2018
ISBN: 1938334299
Publication Date: 2018-02-15
Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences through the mail. They sent each other handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards often with inserted items including articles, money, and video tapes. SISTER LOVE: THE LETTERS OF AUDRE LORDE AND PAT PARKER 1974-1989 gathers this correspondence for readers to eavesdrop on Lorde and Parker. They discuss their work as writers as well as intimate details of their lives, including periods when each lived with cancer. SISTER LOVE is a rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great twentieth century poets.
LGBTQ Social Movements by Lisa M. Stulberg
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S78 2018
ISBN: 0745656072
Publication Date: 2018-02-28
In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century. Covering a range of topics, including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights, youth action, and bisexual and transgender justice, Lisa M. Stulberg explores how marginalized people and communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to demand and create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as complex strategies for equality, the limits and possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the interconnectedness of social movements, and the role of privilege in movement organizing. This book is an important tool for understanding current LGBTQ politics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, and social movements, as well as anyone new to thinking about these issues.
"All We Want is Equality": Religious Exemptions and Discrimination Against LGBT People in the United States by Ryan Thoreson
Call Number: HQ76.45.U5 T46 2018
Publication Date: 2018-02-19
A Human Rights Watch report; also available online.
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America by Nathaniel Frank
Call Number: HQ1034.U5 F73 2017
ISBN: 0674737229
Publication Date: 2017-04-24
The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable--and for many gays and lesbians undesirable--became a legal and moral right in just half a century. Awakening begins in the 1950s, when millions of gays and lesbians were afraid to come out, let alone fight for equality. Across the social upheavals of the next two decades, a gay rights movement emerged with the rising awareness of the equal dignity of same-sex love. A cadre of LGBTQ lawyers soon began to focus on legal recognition for same-sex couples, if not yet on marriage itself. It was only after being pushed by a small set of committed lawyers and grassroots activists that established movement groups created a successful strategy to win marriage in the courts. Marriage equality proponents then had to win over members of their own LGBTQ community who declined to make marriage a priority, while seeking to rein in others who charged ahead heedless of their carefully laid plans. All the while, they had to fight against virulent antigay opponents and capture the American center by spreading the simple message that love is love, ultimately propelling the LGBTQ community--and America--immeasurably closer to justice.
No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 J36 2018
ISBN: 0700625283
Publication Date: 2018-01-15
Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically naive Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the country's most hostile states. The LGBT civil rights movement's history in California and in big cities such as New York and Washington, DC, has been well documented. But what is it like for LGBT activists in a place like Kansas, where they face much stiffer headwinds? How do they win hearts and minds in the shadow of the Westboro Baptist Church ("Christian" motto: "God Hates Fags")? Traveling the state in search of answers--from city to suburb to farm--journalist C. J. Janovy encounters LGBT activists who have fought, in ways big and small, for the acceptance and respect of their neighbors, their communities, and their government. Her book tells the story of these twenty-first-century citizen activists--the issues that unite them, the actions they take, and the personal and larger consequences of their efforts, however successful they might be. With its close-up view of the lives and work behind LGBT activism in Kansas, No Place Like Home fills a prairie-sized gap in the narrative of civil rights in America. The book also looks forward, as an inspiring guide for progressives concerned about the future of any vilified minority in an increasingly polarized nation.
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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg
Call Number: E185.97.M95 R67 2017
ISBN: 019065645X
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976. Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century.
LGBTQ Politics: a Critical Reader by Marla Brettschneider (Editor); Susan Burgess (Editor); Christine Keating (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.5 .L49 2017
ISBN: 1479893870
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
A definitive collection of original essays on queer politics. From Harvey Milk to ACT UP to Proposition 8, no political change in the last two decades has been as rapid as the advancement of civil rights for LGBTQ people. As we face a critical juncture in progressive activism, political science, which has been slower than most disciplines to study the complexity of queer politics, must grapple with the shifting landscape of LGBTQ rights and inclusion. LGBTQ Politics analyzes both the successes and obstacles to building the LGBTQ movement over the past twenty years, offering analyses that point to possibilities for the movement's future. Essays cover a range of topics, including activism, law, and coalition-building, and draw on subfields such as American politics, comparative politics, political theory, and international relations. LGBTQ Politics presents the full range of methodological, ideological, and substantive approaches to LGBTQ politics that exist in political science. Analyses focused on mainstream institutional and elite politics appear alongside contributions grounded in grassroots movements and critical theory. While some essays celebrate the movement's successes and prospects, others express concerns that its democratic basis has become undermined by a focus on funding power over people power, attempts to fragment the LGBTQ movement from racial, gender and class justice, and a persistent attachment to single-issue politics. A comprehensive, thought-provoking collection, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader will give rise to continued critical discussion of the parameters of LGBTQ politics.
Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History (2nd edition) by Leila J. Rupp (Editor); Susan Kathleen Freeman
Call Number: HQ75.16.U6 U53 2017
ISBN: 0299313042
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
Taking into account recent historic changes, this second edition updates the essays on the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage, the Right, and trans history. Authors of several other essays have taken the opportunity to add new material and references where warranted.
Stonewall Strong: Gay Men's Heroic Fight for Resilience, Good Health, and a Strong Community by John-Manuel Andriote
Call Number: HQ76.2.U5 A53 2017
ISBN: 1442258233
Publication Date: 2017-10-20
Longtime Washington, D.C. health journalist John-Manuel Andriote didn't expect to mark the twenty-fifth year of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in 2006 by coming out in the Washington Post about his own recent HIV diagnosis. For twenty years he had reported on the epidemic as an HIV-negative gay man, as AIDS killed many of his friends and roused gay Americans to action against a government that preferred to ignore their existence. Eight little words from his doctor, "I have bad news on the HIV test," turned Andriote's world upside down. Over time Andriote came to understand that his choice, each and every day, to take the powerful medication he needs to stay healthy, to stay alive, came from his own resilience. When and how had he become resilient? He searched his journals for answers in his own life story. The reporter then set out to learn more about resilience. Stonewall Strong is the result. Drawing from leading-edge research and nearly one hundred original interviews, the book makes it abundantly clear: most gay men are astonishingly resilient. Andriote deftly weaves together research data and lived experience to show that supporting gay men's resilience is the key to helping them avoid the snares that await too many who lack the emotional tools they need to face the traumas that disproportionately afflict gay men, including childhood sexual abuse, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, depression, and suicide. Andriote writes with searing honesty about the choices and forces that brought him to his own 'before-and-after' moment, teasing out what he learned along the way about resilience, surviving, and thriving. He frames pivotal moments in recent history as manifestations of gay men's resilience, from the years of secrecy and subversion before the 1969 Stonewall riots; through the coming of age, heartbreak, and politically emboldening AIDS years; and pushing onward to legal marriage equality. Andriote gives us an inside look at family relationships that support resilient sons, the nation's largest organizations' efforts to build on the resilience of marginalized LGBTQ youth, drag houses, and community centers. We go inside individuals' hearts and groups' missions to see a community that works, plays, and even prays together. Finally, Andriote presents the inspiring stories of gay men who have moved beyond the traumas and stereotypes, claiming their resilience and right to good health, and working to build a community that will be "Stonewall Strong."
Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier by Joanne Passet
Call Number: Z473.G745 P37 2016
ISBN: 1594934711
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
"Whatever else will be said about her--and you can bet there will be plenty, because Barbara was no stranger to controversy--the one thing that is true above all else is that she was the most important person in lesbian publishing in the world. Without her boldness and her audacity, there might not be the robust lesbian publishing industry there is today." --Teresa DeCrescenzo
Barbara Grier--feminist, activist, publisher, and archivist--was many things to different people. Perhaps most well known as one of the founders of Naiad Press, Barbara's unapologetic drive to make sure that lesbians everywhere had access to books with stories that reflected their lives in positive ways was legendary. Barbara changed the lives of thousands of women in her lifetime. For the first time, historian Joanne Passet uncovers the controversial and often polarizing life of this firebrand editor and publisher with new and never-before published letters, interviews, and other personal material from Grier's own papers. Passet takes readers behind the scenes of The Ladder, offering a rare window onto the isolated and bereft lives lesbians experienced before the feminist movement and during the earliest days of gay political organizing. Through extensive letters between Grier and her friend novelist Jane Rule, Passet offers a virtual diary of this dramatic and repressive era. Passet also looks at Grier's infamous "theft" of The Ladder's mailing list, which in turn allowed her to launch and promote Naiad Press, the groundbreaking women's publishing company she founded with partner Donna McBride in 1973. Naiad went on to become one of the leaders in gay and lesbian book publishing and for years helped sustain lesbian and feminist bookstores--and readers--across the country.
The Gift of Anger by Joe Solmonese; Judy Shepard (Foreword by)
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S66 2016
ISBN: 1626565880
Publication Date: 2016-09-12
Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act; repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"; and passing marriage equality acts in eight states. How did Solmonese and HRC do it? What Solmonese reveals in this book is that for him, the key to success was learning to harness his anger. Essentially it's just a form of energy. Channeled, it can keep you moving forward on a long journey. But uncontrolled, it can blow everything up. With this as his guiding principle, Solmonese uses stories from his work with HRC and his previous position as CEO of the powerful women's organization EMILY's List to share a series of often-surprising lessons. For example, empathize with your enemies instead of shaming them, find allies wherever you can, and ask for the doable, not the impossible (even when the "impossible" is your ultimate goal). Most striking in this book are the stories of Solmonese's ability to draw some kind of win--however small--from seeming adversaries. But at every step of the way he emphasizes the importance of managing the yin-yang tension of anger. Particularly when one is dealing with irrational and offensive attitudes, the temptation is ever present to give in to righteous indignation. While it's fine to feel it, Solmonese's advice is to always be strategic with your outrage.
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 H64 2016
ISBN: 0822361108
Publication Date: 2016-04-15
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story--mostly lesbians and including women of color--measured their success not by profit, but by developing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto Women's Bookstore, and Old Wives' Tales in San Francisco, and in the essential Feminist Bookstore News, bookwomen changed people's lives and the world. In retelling their stories, Hogan not only shares the movement's tools with contemporary queer antiracist feminist activists and theorists, she gives us a vocabulary, strategy, and legacy for thinking through today's feminisms.
Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights by Brian F. Harrison; Melissa R. Michelson
Call Number: HQ76.8.U6 H38 2017
ISBN: 0190654740
Publication Date: 2017-02-20
American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public's mood on contentious issues like abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public opinion toward these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. There are notable exceptions, however, particularly with regard to divisive issues that highlight identity politics. For example, over the past three decades, public support for same-sex marriage has risen from scarcely more than a tenth to a majority of the population. Why have people's minds changed so dramatically on this issue, and why so quickly? It wasn't just that older, more conservative people were dying and being replaced in the population by younger, more progressive people; people were changing their minds. Was this due to the influence of elite leaders like President Obama? Or advocacy campaigns by organizations pushing for greater recognition of the equal rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people? Listen, We Need to Talk tests a new theory, what Brian Harrison and Melissa Michelson call The Theory of Dissonant Identity Priming, about how to change people's attitudes on controversial topics. Harrison and Michelson conducted randomized experiments all over the United States, many in partnership with equality organizations, including Equality Illinois, Georgia Equality, Lambda Legal, Equality Maryland, and Louisiana's Capital City Alliance. They found that people are often willing to change their attitudes about LGBT rights when they find out that others with whom they share an identity (for example, as sports fans or members of a religious group) are also supporters of those rights-particularly when told about support from a leader of the group, and particularly if they find the information somewhat surprising. Fans of the Green Bay Packers football team were influenced by hearing that a Packers Hall-of-Famer is a supporter of LGBT rights. African Americans were influenced by hearing that the Black president of the United States is a supporter. Religious individuals were influenced by hearing that a religious leader is a supporter. And strong partisans were influenced by hearing that a leader of their party is a supporter. Through a series of engaging experiments and compelling evidence, Listen, We Need to Talk provides a blueprint for thinking about how to bring disparate groups together over contentious political issues.
Gay in the 80s: From Fighting for Our Rights to Fighting for Our Lives by Colin Clews
Call Number: HQ76.25 .C54 2017
ISBN: 1788036743
Publication Date: 2017
On the face of it, the 80s wasn't the best decade for queer people around the world. Challenges included the rise of the New Right in the USA, Section 28 which prohibited the promotion of homosexuality; the trial of Gay's the Word bookshop in the UK and the continuing criminalisation of homosexuality in the majority of Australian states. Underpinning all of this was the unfolding of the AIDS crisis: a time when LGBT people realised that they were no longer simply fighting for their rights but, quite literally, fighting for their lives. But it wasn't all doom and gloom; by the end of the eighties there had been some very real progress. Major political parties had LGBT rights in their manifestos, trades unions increasingly took up the cause and regional legislators introduced anti-discrimination laws and policies. LGBT people became more prolific in film, television, music and literature and the LGBT community grew significantly. Gay in the 80s examines a number of the events and issues in the UK, USA and Australia, giving a comprehensive perspective of LGBT reality during this decade.
Beyond Marriage: Continuing Battles for LGBT Rights by Susan Gluck Mezey
Call Number: KF4754.5 .M489 2017
ISBN: 1442248629
Publication Date: 2017-03-23
In this book, Susan Gluck Mezey examines LGBT policymaking over the last several decades, highlighting advances in LGBT rights as well as formidable challenges that still confront the LGBT community. With an emphasis on courts, she traces developments in the struggles for LGBT rights in the United States and abroad. The chapters focus on employment discrimination, transgender rights, marriage equality, and the ongoing battles over discrimination against same-sex couples and transgender persons in education, employment, and public accommodations. It also adds a global perspective by appraising issues affecting LGBT rights in other parts of the world, discussing claims of discrimination in the Canadian and South African courts as well as in the European Court of Human Rights. Mezey provides a succinct and accessible guide to the debates over sexual orientation and gender identity, evaluating the roles played by state and federal courts, legislatures, and chief executives in formulating and implementing LGBT policy. Suitable as an up-to-date resource for anyone interested in LGBT rights, Beyond Marriage will also help students in upper-level classes focusing on judicial politics, public policymaking, family law, civil rights, gender policy, and minority group politics understand ways forward for the LGBT community in the political realm.
After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights by Carlos A. Ball (Editor)
Call Number: HQ73.3.U6 A38 2016
ISBN: 1479883085
Publication Date: 2016-06-14
In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were a conservative cause overshadowing a host of more important issues. Now that nationwide marriage equality is a reality, everyone who cares about LGBT rights must grapple with how best to promote the interests of sexual and gender identity minorities in a society that permits same-sex couples to marry. This book brings together 12 original essays by leading scholars of law, politics, and society to address the most important question facing the LGBT movement today: What does marriage equality mean for the future of LGBT rights? After Marriage Equality explores crucial and wide-ranging social, political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement, including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and mobilization, anti-discrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual autonomy, and gender and race differences. The book also looks at how LGBT movements in other nations have responded to the recognition of same-sex marriages, and what we might emulate or adjust in our own advocacy.
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
Call Number: HQ76.96 .M67 2016
ISBN: 1438461771
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left by Emily K. Hobson
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 H63 2016
ISBN: 0520279050
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.
Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World by Katherine McFarland Bruce
Call Number: HQ76.965.G38 B78 2016
ISBN: 1479803618
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity. Forty-five years later, over six million people annually participate in 115 Pride parades across the United States. They march with church congregations and college gay-straight alliance groups, perform dance routines and marching band numbers, and gather with friends to cheer from the sidelines. With vivid imagery, and showcasing the voices of these participants, Pride Parades tells the story of Pride from its beginning in 1970 to 2010. Though often dismissed as frivolous spectacles, the author builds a convincing case for the importance of Pride parades as cultural protests at the heart of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Weaving together interviews, archival reports, quantitative data, and ethnographic observations at six diverse contemporary parades in New York City, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Burlington, Fargo, and Atlanta, Bruce describes how Pride parades are a venue for participants to challenge the everyday cultural stigma of being queer in America, all with a flair and sense of fun absent from typical protests. Unlike these political protests that aim to change government laws and policies, Pride parades are coordinated, concerted attempts to improve the standing of LGBT people in American culture.
Love Unites Us: Winning the Freedom to Marry in America by Kevin Cathcart (Editor); Leslie Gabel-Brett (Editor); Eric Holder (Foreword by)
Call Number: KF539 .L68 2016
ISBN: 1595585508
Publication Date: 2016-06-14
Victory may sometimes look like a sudden revolution when, in truth, it rests on years of struggle. The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is a sweeping victory for the freedom to marry, but it was one step in a long process. Love Unites Us is the history of activists' passion and persistence in the struggle for marriage rights for same-sex couples in the United States, told in the words of those who waged the battle. Launching the fight for the freedom to marry was neither an obvious nor an uncontested strategy. To many activists, achieving marriage equality seemed far-fetched, but the skeptics were proved wrong. Proactive arguments in favor of love, family, and commitment were more effective than arguments that focused on rights and the goal of equality at work. Telling the stories of people who loved and cared for one another, in sickness and in health, cut through the antigay noise and moved people--not without backlash and not overnight, but faster than most activists and observers had ever imagined. With compelling stories from leading attorneys and activists including Evan Wolfson, Mary L. Bonauto, Jon W. Davidson, and Paul M. Smith, Love Unites Us explains how gay and lesbian couples achieved the right to marry.
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality by Jim Obergefell; Debbie Cenziper
Call Number: KF229.O24 C46 2016
ISBN: 0062456083
Publication Date: 2016-06-14
The fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades--the legalization of same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states. Through insider accounts and access to key players, this definitive account reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind Obergefell v Hodges and the lives at its center. This is a story of law and love and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. Twenty years ago, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur fell in love in Cincinnati, Ohio, a place where gays were routinely picked up by police and fired from their jobs. In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had to provide married gay couples all the benefits offered to straight couples. Jim and John--who was dying from ALS--flew to Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal. But back home, Ohio refused to recognize their union, or even list Jim's name on John's death certificate. Then they met Al Gerhardstein, a courageous attorney who had spent nearly three decades advocating for civil rights and who now saw an opening for the cause that few others had before him. This forceful and deeply affecting narrative chronicles how this grieving man and his lawyer, against overwhelming odds, introduced the most important gay rights case in U.S. history.
Appealing for Justice: One Colorado Lawyer, Four Decades, and the Landmark Gay Rights Case: Romer v. Evans by Susan Berry Casey
Call Number: KF373.D83 C37 2016
ISBN: 0997698403
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
Jean Eberhart Dubofsky came of age when trouble was around every corner, fueled by one grave injustice or another. Appealing For Justice is the story of how this shy, unknown, and unheralded woman found her place at the table again and again, then led the way, broke down barriers and helped shape the direction and flow of history. At almost every step, Jean Dubofsky's story mirrors, reflects, or reveals the depth of the injustice, discrimination, and inequality that lay hidden just beneath the surface of the country we thought ourselves to be. Jean Dubofsky made history in 1979 when she was the first woman appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court, then made history again in 1996 at the U.S. Supreme Court when she argued and won the landmark gay rights case, Romer v. Evans. Dubofsky's journey from helping to shape and implement the strategy that led to the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, to bringing the first slavery lawsuit since the Civil War, and finally winning at the U.S. Supreme Court is not simply her story, it also is the a story of an entire generation. Appealing For Justice allows, for the first time, Jean Dubofsky and Romer v. Evans to find their rightful historic place at a critical turning point in the country's unfolding story of equal rights and justice.
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
Call Number: HQ75.15 .W66 2016
ISBN: 0300218036
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
A landmark account of gay and lesbian creative networks and the seismic changes they brought to twentieth-century culture In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called "the Homintern" (an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.
Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe by Timothy Shah (Editor); Thomas Farr (Editor); Jack Friedman (Editor)
Call Number: BL65.H64 R48 2016
ISBN: 0190600608
Publication Date: 2016-06-30
In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict been more salient than in the debate between claims of religious freedom, on one hand, and equal rights claims made on the behalf of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, on the other. As new rights for LGBT individuals have expanded in liberal democracies across the West, longstanding rights of religious freedom - such as the rights of religious communities to adhere to their fundamental teachings, including protecting the rights of conscience; the rights of parents to impart their religious beliefs to their children; and the liberty to advance religiously-based moral arguments as a rationale for laws - have suffered a corresponding decline. Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman's volume, Religious Freedom and Gay Rights brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on religion, morality, politics, and law to analyze the emerging tensions between religious freedom and gay rights in three key geographic regions:the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. What implications will expanding regimes of equality rights for LGBT individuals have on religious freedom in these regions? What are the legal and moral frameworks that govern tensions between gay rights and religious freedom? How are these tensions illustrated in particular legal, political, and policy controversies? And what is the proper way to balance new claims of equality against existing claims for freedom of religious groups and individuals? Religious Freedom and Gay Rights offers several explorations of these questions.
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis by Kevin J. Mumford
Call Number: HQ76.27.A37 M86 2016
ISBN: 1469626845
Publication Date: 2016-03-14
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism--helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists--from James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael Fitzgerald--Mumford analyzes the ways in which movements for social change both inspired and marginalized black gay men. Drawing on an extensive archive of newspapers, pornography, and film, as well as government documents, organizational records, and personal papers, Mumford sheds new light on four volatile decades in the protracted battle of black gay men for affirmation and empowerment in the face of pervasive racism and homophobia.
Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D69 2016
ISBN: 0465032702
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph--both political and sexual--before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called "gay lifestyle." In Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together--as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues--to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life. As Downs shows, gay people found one another in the Metropolitan Community Church, a nationwide gay religious group; in the pages of the Body Politic, a newspaper that encouraged its readers to think of their sexuality as a political identity; at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay literary life in New York City; and at theaters putting on "Gay American History," a play that brought to the surface the enduring problem of gay oppression. These and many other achievements would be largely forgotten after the arrival in the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed critics to claim that sex was the defining feature of gay liberation. This reductive narrative set back the cause of gay rights and has shaped the identities of gay people for decades.
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
Call Number: HQ75.8.J66 A3 2016
ISBN: 0316315435
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
*At Powell Library.
Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious, When We Rise is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and and violence alike. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics by Timothy Stewart-Winter
Call Number: F548.9.G29 S74 2016
ISBN: 0812247914
Publication Date: 2016-01-19
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively as a voting bloc--not least by campaigning in those same bars. Gays had acquired power and influence. They had clout. Tracing the gay movement's trajectory since the 1950s from the closet to the corridors of power, Queer Clout is the first book to weave together activism and electoral politics, shifting the story from the coastal gay meccas to the nation's great inland metropolis. Timothy Stewart-Winter challenges the traditional division between the homophile and gay liberation movements, and stresses gay people's and African Americans' shared focus on police harassment. He highlights the crucial role of black civil rights activists and political leaders in offering white gays and lesbians not only a model for protest but also an opening to join an emerging liberal coalition in city hall. The book draws on diverse oral histories and archival records spanning half a century, including those of undercover vice and police red squad investigators, previously unexamined interviews by midcentury social scientists studying gay life, and newly available papers of activists, politicians, and city agencies. As the first history of gay politics in the post-Stonewall era grounded in archival research, Queer Clout sheds new light on the politics of race, religion, and the AIDS crisis, and it shows how big-city politics paved the way for the gay movement's unprecedented successes under the nation's first African American president.
Fragmented Citizens: The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives by Stephen M. Engel
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 E54 2016
ISBN: 1479809128
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
In Fragmented Citizens, Stephen M. Engel contends that the present moment in gay and lesbian rights in America is indeed one of considerable advancement and change--but that there is still much to be done in shaping American institutions to recognize gays and lesbians as full citizens. With impressive scope and fascinating examples, Engel traces the relationship between gay and lesbian individuals and the government from the late nineteenth century through the present. Engel shows that gays and lesbians are more accurately described as fragmented citizens. Despite the marriage ruling, Engel argues that LGBT Americans still do not have full legal protections against workplace, housing, family, and other kinds of discrimination. There remains a continuing struggle of the state to control the sexuality of gay and lesbian citizens--they continue to be fragmented citizens. Engel argues that understanding the development of the idea of gay and lesbian individuals as 'less-than-whole' citizens can help us make sense of the government's continued resistance to full equality despite massive changes in public opinion. Furthermore, he argues that it was the state's ability to identify and control gay and lesbian citizens that allowed it to develop strong administrative capacities to manage all of its citizens in matters of immigration, labor relations, and even national security. The struggle for gay and lesbian rights, then, affected not only the lives of those seeking equality but also the very nature of American governance itself. Fragmented Citizens is a sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be.
Making Out in the Mainstream: GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle
Call Number: P94.5.G38 D69 2016
ISBN: 0773546782
Publication Date: 2016-03-18
Making Out in the Mainstream is the first full-length study of LGBT media activism, revealing the daily struggle to reconcile economic and professional pressures with conflicting personal, organizational, and political priorities. Documenting the rise and evolution of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Vincent Doyle presents a nuanced perspective on the complexity, contradictions, and ambivalences of advancing social causes through popular media. Based on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research carried out at GLAAD's New York and Los Angeles offices from 2000 to 2001, Making Out in the Mainstream analyzes the GLAAD Media Awards and the organization's responses to controversial public figures such as Dr Laura Schlessinger and Eminem, and programs such as Queer as Folk. Doyle argues that the earlier political strategy of coming out to the mainstream, intended to dismantle closeted life and create a mass movement, has been supplanted by the market-oriented "making out" in the mainstream, which privileges respectable images of homosexuality in the pursuit of political and economic gain. He shows how this emphasis on respectability clashes with the development of a diverse movement that campaigns for greater inclusion and he offers a sophisticated appeal for more complicated understandings of assimilation and anti-normalization.
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 F33 2015
ISBN: 1451694113
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights--from the 1950s to the present--based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational 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. In the words of the eyewitnesses who were there through the most critical events, The Gay Revolution paints a nuanced portrait of the LGBT civil rights movement.
Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim; Lillian Faderman (Foreword by); Kay Lahusen (Photographer)
Call Number: HQ75.4.G58 B35 2015
ISBN: 1512019747
Publication Date: 2015-06-13
Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer is the first full-length biography of the woman who has been called the mother of the gay-rights movement. Her work in the LGBT movement spanned from the late 1950s until her death in 2007. Her partner in life, Kay Lahusen, photographed many of the movement's biggest actions during the 1960s, and more than 270 photos accompany this biography. Gittings was active in a wide range of pre- and post-Stonewall groups, including the Daughters of Bilitis. She served as editor of DOB's newsletter, The Ladder. She worked with Frank Kameny on many protests and legal cases fighting government discrimination. She also was among the leaders of the push to change the American Psychiatric Association diagnosis of homosexuality as an illness, and among those pushing the American Library Association to be more inclusive of gays. "Tracy Baim brings Gittings to life in this captivating and inspiring biography. Skillfully combining Gittings' own words with accounts of her activist campaigns, this biography makes clear how much Gittings accomplished. A committed activist for five decades, Barbara Gittings truly changed the world. " - Author and Historian John D'Emilio (In a New Century: Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life)
Don't Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama's Presidency by Kerry Eleveld
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 E44 2015
ISBN: 0465074898
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Gay rights has been a defining progressive issue of Barack Obama's presidency: Congress repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2010 with his strong support, and in 2011, he instructed his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, helping to pave the way for a series of Supreme Court decisions that ultimately legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. This rapid succession of victories is astonishing by any measure--and is especially incredible considering that when Obama first took office he, like many politicians, still viewed gay rights as politically toxic. In 2008, for instance, he opposed full marital rights for same-sex couples, calling marriage a "sacred union between a man and a woman." It wasn't until 2012, in the heat of his reelection campaign, that Obama finally embraced marriage equality. In Don't Tell Me to Wait, former Advocate reporter Kerry Eleveld shows that Obama's transformation from cautious gradualist to gay rights champion was the result of intense pressure from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists. These men and women changed the conversation issue by issue, pushing the president and the country toward greater freedom for LGBT Americans. Drawing on years of research and reporting, Eleveld tells the dramatic story of the fight for gay rights in America, detailing how activists pushed the president to change his mind, turned the tide of political opinion, and set the nation on course to finally embrace LGBT Americans as full citizens of this country.
The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQI Activism by Edited by Adrian Brooks; Foreword by Jonathan Katz
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 R54 2015
ISBN: 1627781234
Publication Date: 2015-06-09
The Right Side of History tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today, including first-person accounts of the key protest that is at the heart of the 2015 movie Stonewall. The book shows how LGBT folk have always been in the forefront of progressive social evolution in the United States. It references heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bayard Rustin, Harvey Milk, and Edie Windsor. Equally, the book honors names that aren't in history books, from participants in the Names Project, a national phenomenon memorializing 94,000 AIDS victims, to underground artists and writers.
Wedlocked: the Perils of Marriage Equality by Katherine Franke
Call Number: HQ1001 .F73 2015
ISBN: 1479815748
Publication Date: 2015-11-06
The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, but also what kind of freedom and equality the ability to marry can mobilize. Wedlocked turns to history to compare today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of newly emancipated black people in the mid-nineteenth century, when they were able to legally marry for the first time. Maintaining that the transition to greater freedom was both wondrous and perilous for newly emancipated people, Katherine Franke relates stories of former slaves' involvements with marriage and draws lessons that serve as cautionary tales for today's marriage rights movements. While "be careful what you wish for" is a prominent theme, they also teach us how the rights-bearing subject is inevitably shaped by the very rights they bear, often in ways that reinforce racialized gender norms and stereotypes. Franke further illuminates how the racialization of same-sex marriage has redounded to the benefit of the gay rights movement while contributing to the ongoing subordination of people of color and the diminishing reproductive rights of women. Like same-sex couples today, freed African-American men and women experienced a shift in status from outlaws to in-laws, from living outside the law to finding their private lives organized by law and state licensure. Their experiences teach us the potential and the perils of being subject to legal regulation: rights--and specifically the right to marriage--can both burden and set you free.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism by David Paternotte; Manon Remblay
Call Number: HQ76.5 .A84 2015
ISBN: 1409457095
Publication Date: 2015-09-28
The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research.
Frank by Barney Frank
Call Number: E840.8.F72 A3 2015
ISBN: 0374280304
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time? Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first attraction and to keep the second a secret. Now, sixty years later, his sexual orientation is widely accepted, while his belief in government is embattled. Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage is one man's account of the country's transformation--and the tale of a truly momentous career.
The Moral Defense of Homosexuality by Chris Meyers
Call Number: HQ76.5 .M49 2015
ISBN: 1442249315
Publication Date: 2015-05-14
Chris Meyers takes the reader on a careful, rational, sustained criticism of arguments about the immorality of homosexuality. Meyers refutes anti-gay arguments by showing that they are based on unreasonable or demonstrably false ideas about the nature of morality. Working through the morality arguments against homosexuality, Meyers shows how the nature of morality demands impartial, overriding reasons to act. He argues that morality is not grounded in visceral feelings of disgust, commands from the scriptures, or mysterious Platonic essences. In clear, convincing discussion, Meyers examines morality to promote the moral logic of granting rights to all people, no matter their sexual orientation.
It's Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia & Winning True Equality by Michelangelo Signorile
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 S535 2015
ISBN: 0544381009
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
From the author of the groundbreaking bestseller Queer in America, a myth-shattering look at the present and future of gay rights Marriage equality has surged across the country. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as longtime advocate Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Puncturing the illusion that victory is now inevitable, Signorile marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. He exposes the bigotry of the brewing religious conservative backlash against LGBT rights and challenges the complacency and hypocrisy of supposed allies in Washington, the media, and Hollywood. Not just a wake-up call, It's Not Over is also a battle plan for the fights to come in the march toward equality. Signorile tells the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans who have refused to be merely tolerated, or worse, and are demanding full acceptance. And he documents signs of hope in schools and communities finding new ways to combat ignorance, bullying, and fear. Urgent and empowering, It's Not Over is a necessary book from one of our most electrifying voices.
Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny by Michael G. Long (Contribution by); Long (Contribution by)
Call Number: HQ75.8.K35 A4 2014
ISBN: 0815610432
Publication Date: 2014-11-26
Contrary to popular notions, today's LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925-2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace homosexuality as moral and healthy, publicly denounced the federal government for excluding homosexuals from federal employment, openly fought the military's ban against gay men and women, debated psychiatrists who depicted homosexuality as a mental disorder, identified test cases to advance civil liberties through the federal courts, acted as counsel to countless homosexuals suffering state-sanctioned discrimination, and organized marches for gay rights at the White House and other public institutions. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny's historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today's politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny's inimitable voice-a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters. This volume collects approximately 150 letters from 1958 to 1975, a critical period in Kameny's life during which he evolved from a victim of the law to a vocal opponent of the law, to the voice of the law itself. Long situates these letters in context, giving historical and biographical data about the subjects and events involved. Gay Is Good pays tribute to an advocate whose tireless efforts created a massive shift in social attitudes and practices, leading the way toward equality for the LGBT community.
Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide by Ryan R. Thoreson
Call Number: HQ76.5 .T477 2014
ISBN: 0816692742
Publication Date: 2014-11-07
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human rights advocates do on a day-to-day basis and for whom? Understanding LGBT human rights claims is impossible, Ryan R. Thoreson contends, without knowing the answers to these questions. In Transnational LGBT Activism, Thoreson argues that the idea of LGBT human rights is not predetermined but instead is defined by international activists who establish what and who qualifies for protection. He shows how IGLHRC formed and evolved, who is engaged in this work, how they conceptualize LGBT human rights, and how they have institutionalized their views at the United Nations and elsewhere. After a full year of in-depth research in New York City and Cape Town, South Africa, Thoreson is able to reconstruct IGLHRC's early campaigns and highlight decisive shifts in the organization's work from its founding to the present day. Using a number of high-profile campaigns for illustration, he offers insight into why activists have framed particular demands in specific ways and how intergovernmental advocacy shapes the claims that activists ultimately make. The result is a uniquely balanced, empirical response to previous impressionistic and reductive critiques of Western human rights activists--and a clarifying perspective on the nature and practice of global human rights advocacy.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights by Wallace Swan (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.5 .G387 2015
ISBN: 1466567309
Publication Date: 2014-09-26
This book could be aptly entitled After Marriage--What Is Next for the LGBT Community? Now that marriage is increasingly being institutionalized in many states within the United States it is quite likely that marriage will be acceptable in all 50 states (dependent upon action of the U.S. Supreme Court). What lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy issues then remain to be addressed? Based on the editor and his team of contributors' collective years of work and experience at the forefront of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Civil Rights: A Public Policy Agenda for Uniting a Divided America presents fresh information about the current status and insights into the future directions of the L.G.B.T. movement. The book discusses political party stances in the U.S. legislative and executive branches, highlighting state and national challenges and complexities. The coverage includes the successful LGBT effort to partner with organizations, including churches and educational institutions as well as non-profits, and presents the successes (and failures) of grassroots movements around the country. As GLBT policies evolve and take shape, and new voices of the movement emerge, these issues can be shown to pervade a number of policy areas including mental and physical healthcare, race, poverty and homelessness, religion, immigration, senior issues, the role of family in the LGBT community, bisexuality and transgender issues, the effect of economics on creation of homicides and hate crimes, education, business, and workforce diversity. A collection of fascinating contemporary perspectives, this book explores the breadth and depth of the many "divides"--socioeconomic, race, age, healthcare, immigration, education, and income--including those that intersect within the GLBT community.
Understanding and Teaching U. S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by Leila J. Rupp (Editor); Susan K. Freeman (Editor)
Call Number: HQ75.16.U6 U53 2014
ISBN: 029930244X
Publication Date: 2014-12-17
Though largely neglected in classrooms, LGBT history can provide both a fuller understanding of U.S. history and contextualization for the modern world. This is the first book designed for university and high school teachers who want to integrate queer history into the standard curriculum. With its inspiring stories, classroom-tested advice, and rich information, it is a valuable resource for anyone who thinks history should be an all-inclusive story. Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History offers a wealth of insight for teachers. Introductory essays by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman make clear why queer history is important and provide global historical context, showing that same-sex sexual desire and gender change are not new, modern phenomena. Teachers in diverse educational settings provide narratives of their experiences teaching queer history. A topical section offers seventeen essays on such themes as sexual diversity in early America, industrial capitalism and emergent sexual cultures, and gay men and lesbians in World War II. Contributors include detailed suggestions for integrating these topics into a standard U.S. history curriculum, including creative and effective assignments. A final section addresses sources and interpretive strategies well-suited to the history classroom. Taken as a whole, Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History will help teachers at all levels navigate through cultural touchstones and political debates and provide a fuller knowledge of significant events in history.
*Also available as an eBook (UC users only): Understanding and Teaching U.S. LGBT History
There Goes the Gayborhood? by Amin Ghaziani
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 G483 2014
ISBN: 0691158797
Publication Date: 2014-08-10
Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the origins of these unique cultural enclaves, the reasons why they are changing today, and their prospects for the future. Drawing on a wealth of evidence--including census data, opinion polls, hundreds of newspaper reports from across the United States, and more than one hundred original interviews with residents in Chicago, one of the most paradigmatic cities in America--There Goes the Gayborhood? argues that political gains and societal acceptance are allowing gays and lesbians to imagine expansive possibilities for a life beyond the gayborhood. The dawn of a new post-gay era is altering the character and composition of existing enclaves across the country, but the spirit of integration can coexist alongside the celebration of differences in subtle and sometimes surprising ways. Exploring the intimate relationship between sexuality and the city, this cutting-edge book reveals how gayborhoods, like the cities that surround them, are organic and continually evolving places. Gayborhoods have nurtured sexual minorities throughout the twentieth century and, despite the unstoppable forces of flux, will remain resonant and revelatory features of urban life.
Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Miriam Frank
Call Number: HD6285.5.U6 F72 2014
ISBN: 1439911398
Publication Date: 2014-06-13
Out in the Union tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013. Miriam Frank shrewdly chronicles the evolution of labor politics with queer activism and identity formation, showing how unions began affirming the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers in the 1970s and 1980s. She documents coming out on the job and in the union as well as issues of discrimination and harassment, and the creation of alliances between unions and LGBT communities. Featuring in-depth interviews with LGBT and labor activists, Frank provides an inclusive history of the convergence of labor and LGBT interests. She carefully details how queer caucuses in local unions introduced domestic partner benefits and union-based AIDS education for health care workers-innovations that have been influential across the U.S. workforce. Out in the Union also examines organizing drives at queer workplaces, campaigns for marriage equality, and other gay civil rights issues to show the enduring power of LGBT workers.
The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality by Suzanna Danuta Walters
Call Number: HQ76.5 .W35 2014
ISBN: 0814770576
Publication Date: 2014-05-02
From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in American politics and culture. Our reigning national story is that a new era of rainbow acceptance is at hand. But dig a bit deeper, and this seemingly brave new gay world is disappointing. For all of the undeniable changes, the plea for tolerance has sabotaged the full integration of gays into American life. Same-sex marriage is unrecognized and unpopular in the vast majority of states, hate crimes proliferate, and even in the much vaunted "gay friendly" world of Hollywood and celebrity culture, precious few stars are openly gay.In The Tolerance Trap, Suzanna Walters takes on received wisdom about gay identities and gay rights, arguing that we are not "almost there," but on the contrary have settled for a watered-down goal of tolerance and acceptance rather than a robust claim to full civil rights. Drawing on a vast array of sources and sharing her own personal journey, Walters shows how the low bar of tolerance demeans rather than ennobles both gays and straights alike. Her fascinating examination covers the gains in political inclusion and the persistence of anti-gay laws, the easy-out sexual freedom of queer youth and the suicides and murders of those in decidedly intolerant environments. She challenges both "born that way" storylines that root civil rights in biology, and "god made me that way" arguments that similarly situate sexuality as innate and impervious to decisions we make to shape it.A sharp and provocative cultural critique, this book deftly argues that a too-soon declaration of victory short-circuits full equality and deprives us all of the transformative possibilities of full integration.
In a New Century: Essays on Queer History, Politics, and Community Life by John D'Emilio
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D445 2014
ISBN: 0299297748
Publication Date: 2014-05-07
For gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States, the twenty-first century has brought dramatic changes: the end of sodomy laws, the elimination of "Don't Ask Don't Tell"; a move toward recognition of same-sex marriage, Gay-Straight Alliances in thousands of high schools, and an explosion of visibility in the media and popular culture. All of this would have been unimaginable to those living just a few decades ago. Yet, at the same time, the American political system has grown ever more conservative, and increasing economic inequality has been a defining feature of the new century. A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D'Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism.
*Also available as an eBook (UC users only): In A New Century
Reclaiming Queer: Activist & Academic Rhetorics of Resistance by Erin J. Rand
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 R365 2014
ISBN: 0817318283
Publication Date: 2014-05-19
*At Young Research Library. Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities, confronted with the alarming violence and homophobia of the AIDS crisis, often responded with angry, militant forms of activism designed not merely to promote acceptance or tolerance, but to forge identity and strength from victimization and assert loudly and forcefully their rights to safety and humanity. The activist reclamation of the word "queer" is one marker of this shift in ideology and practice, and it was mirrored in academic circles by the concurrent emergence of the new field of "queer theory." That is, as queer activists were mobilizing in the streets, queer theorists were producing a similar foment in the halls and publications of academia, questioning regulatory categories of gender and sexuality, and attempting to illuminate the heteronormative foundations of Western thought.
Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell
Call Number: HQ75.4.C64 A3 2014
ISBN: 0816691169
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
When Kelly Cogswell plunged into New York's East Village in 1992, she had just come out. An ex-Southern Baptist born in Kentucky, she was camping in an Avenue B loft, scribbling poems, and playing in an underground band, trying to figure out her next move. A couple of months later she was consumed by the Lesbian Avengers, instigating direct action campaigns, battling cops on Fifth Avenue, mobilizing 20,000 dykes for a march on Washington, D.C., and eating fire--literally--in front of the White House. At once streetwise and wistful, Eating Fire is a witty and urgent coming-of-age memoir spanning two decades, from the Culture War of the early 1990s to the War on Terror. Cogswell's story is an engaging blend of picaresque adventure, how-to activist handbook, and rigorous inquiry into questions of identity, resistance, and citizenship. It is also a compelling, personal recollection of friendships and fallings-out and of finding true love--several times over. After the Lesbian Avengers imploded, Cogswell describes how she became a pioneering citizen journalist, cofounding the Gully online magazine with the groundbreaking goal of offering "queer views on everything." A rare insider's look at the process and perils of street activism, Kelly Cogswell's memoir is an uncompromising and ultimately empowering story of creative resistance against hatred and injustice.
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion by Ryan Conrad (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.5 .A35 2014
ISBN: 1849351848
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
This collection reinvigorates the queer political imagination with contemporary radical voices critical of the gay community's uncritical investment in single-issue 'equality' politics. Centred on the holy trinity of gay marriage, gays in the military and hate crime legislation, Against Equality is a nuanced and honest appraisal of the effects of three decades of neoliberalism on a once-liberatory social movement.
After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation by Mark Pendleton (Editor); Carolyn D'Cruz (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.5 .A338 2014
ISBN: 1742583458
Publication Date: 2014-02-21
Forty years have passed since the publication of Dennis Altman's crucial text, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, which captured the vibrant and violent explosions of the gay liberation movement. On this anniversary, Carolyn D'Cruz and Mark Pendleton have compiled here an impressive band of writers, activists, historians, and founders of the liberation movement. This anthology captures the voices of people who were at the forefront forty years ago, or who can comment on the emergence of one of the most successful movements of identity politics. The book includes chapters from founding activists of the Gay Liberation Front, from prominent historians, from people reflecting on personal connections within the social movements, and from contemporary literary figures and academics. It reproduces some of the key speeches, manifestos, and ephemera of the early movements. After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation also looks to the future of the gay liberation movement - the challenges, the different measures of success, and the opportunities for political and social transformation.
Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina B. Hanhardt
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 H37 2013
ISBN: 0822354705
Publication Date: 2013-12-04
Since the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street violence, especially in gay neighborhoods. During the same time, policymakers and private developers declared the containment of urban violence to be a top priority. In this important book, Christina B. Hanhardt examines how LGBT calls for "safe space" have been shaped by broader public safety initiatives that have sought solutions in policing and privatization and have had devastating effects along race and class lines. Drawing on extensive archival and ethnographic research in New York City and San Francisco, Hanhardt traces the entwined histories of LGBT activism, urban development, and U.S. policy in relation to poverty and crime over the past fifty years. She highlights the formation of a mainstream LGBT movement, as well as the very different trajectories followed by radical LGBT and queer grassroots organizations. Placing LGBT activism in the context of shifting liberal and neoliberal policies, "Safe Space "is a groundbreaking exploration of the contradictory legacies of the LGBT struggle for safety in the city.
Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics by Urvashi Vaid
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 V34 2012
ISBN: 1936833298
Publication Date: 2012-10-30
The LGBT movement is on one of the most active, contested and engaging social movements in the US. This optimistic book challenges advocates for LGBT rights to aspire beyond the narrow framework of equality to a more expansive and inclusive politics. The book’s essays examine the dilemmas of compromise, assimilation, and ideology that face advocates for LGBT rights through accessible, provocative, and personal perspectives derived from the author’s experience as a leader in this movement. Intended for a broad and general audience, the book turns a thoughtful lens into the controversies, rhetoric, and strategic questions that face this social revolution still in progress.
A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet by Judy Grahn
Call Number: PS3557.R226 Z46 2012
ISBN: 1879960877
Publication Date: 2012-11-27
A Simple Revolution is a unique memoir and a dramatic narrative of Judy Grahn's working class roots, her army career and discharge for being lesbian, her education as one of the first whites to attend Howard University, and her life as a celebrated poet in the Bay Area during the tumultuous beginnings of the lesbian movement in the late '60s. Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. She grew up in a working-class home in New Mexico. Seeking options not available in her small-town community of origin, she broke away and joined the Air Force. She was given a "blue discharge” (named for the blue paper on which these letters were printed) from the Air Force because she was a lesbian. This experience galvanized Grahn into public ownership of her lesbianism, into the writing of poetry, into lesbian activism, and into the project of publishing lesbian literature. She co-founded the Women's Press Collective in Oakland, California in 1969; using a barrel mimeograph machine, the WPC published the work of Grahn and other lesbians, including Pat Parker, Willyce Kim, and more. Grahn is the author of several poetry collections, including The Common Woman, A Woman is Talking to Death, and Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling. Aunt Lute Books published a collection of Grahn's work, The Judy Grahn Reader, in 2009. In addition to her poetry, Grahn has written several celebrated nonfiction works exploring woman-centered spirituality, gay history and culture, and lesbian writing.
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Marc Stein
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S75 2012
ISBN: 0415874106
Publication Date: 2012-05-17
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movementprovides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the second half of the twentieth century, Stein examines the changing agendas, beliefs, strategies, and vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions, campaigns, ideologies, and organizations. From the homophile activism of the 1950s and 1960s, through the rise of gay liberation and lesbian feminism in the 1970s, to the multicultural and AIDS activist movements of the 1980s, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a strong foundation for understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics today. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movementprovides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and networks, strong alliances and coalitions, difficult challenges and obstacles, major successes and failures, and the movement’s lasting effects on the country. This volume will be valued by everyone interested in gay and lesbian history, the history of social movements, and the history of the United States.
What's Wrong with Homosexuality? by John Corvino
Call Number: HQ76.25 .C673 2013
ISBN: 0199856311
Publication Date: 2013-03-01
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Call Number: RA644.A25 S363 2012
ISBN: 0520264770
Publication Date: 2012-02-06
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to her Lower East Side and brings it to life, filling these pages with vivid memories of her avant-garde queer friends and dramatically recreating the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a political insider. Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis, Schulman details her experience as a witness to the loss of a generation's imagination and the consequences of that loss.
An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings by Harvey Milk
Call Number: F869.S357 M55 2013
ISBN: 0520275497
Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Gay Press, Gay Power: the Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America by Tracy Baim, editor
Call Number: HQ76.95.U5 G39 2012
ISBN: 1480080527
Publication Date: 2012-11-24
This book provides an overview of the history of LGBT community newspapers and magazines in America. It provides a specific focus on weekly and biweekly newspapers, but also assesses the LGBT state of print media overall. The book starts with an in-depth look into the reasons a gay press started in the 1900s--as a response to either absent or anti-gay coverage by the mainstream media. It then explores the early gay media and journalists working in the gay press from the 1950s to the 1980s. The book includes chapters on some of the longer-lasting LGBT newspapers, such as the Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter and Philadelphia Gay News.There is also an in-depth exploration of advertising and marketing in LGBT media, and a look at the future of queer media in America.
Flagrant Conduct: the story of Lawrence v. Texas: how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans by Dale A. Carpenter
Call Number: KF224.L39 C37 2012
ISBN: 0393062082
Publication Date: 2012
Victory: the triumphant gay revolution by Linda Hirshman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 H57 2012
ISBN: 0061965502
Publication Date: 2012
A Fundamental Freedom: Why republicans, conservatives and libertarians should support gay rights by David Lampo
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 L36 2012
ISBN: 1442215712
Publication Date: 2012
Outlaw Marriages: the hidden histories of fifteen extraordinary same-sex couples by Rodger Streitmatter
Call Number: HQ1034.U5 S77 2012
ISBN: 0807003344
Publication Date: 2012
Gay Rights at the Ballot Box by Amy L. Stone
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S76 2012
ISBN: 0816675481
Publication Date: 2012
Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History by Nan Alamilla Boyd (Editor); Horacio N. Roque RamIrez (Editor)
Call Number: 76.3.U5 B63 2012
ISBN: 0199742731
Publication Date: 2012
Straight: the surprisingly short history of heterosexuality by Hanne Blank
Call Number: HQ23 .B56 2012
ISBN: 0807044431
Publication Date: 2012
A queer history of the United States by Michael Bronski
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011
ISBN: 0807044393
Communists and perverts under the palms : the Johns Committee in Florida, 1956-1965 by Stacy Braukman
Call Number: F316.2 .B68 2012
ISBN: 0813039827
Publication Date: 2012
When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova
Call Number: PS3553.O64554 Z46 2011
ISBN: 1935226517
Publication Date: 2011-11-29
[*eBook; UC users only. Also Young Research Library and Powell Library.] When We Were Outlaws offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is to the revolution; to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. By turns provocative and daringly honest, Cordova renders emblematic scenes of the era, ranging from strike protests to utopian music festivals, to underground meetings with radical fugitives with period detail and evocative characters. For those who came of age in the 70s, and for those who weren't around but still ask "What was it like?", Outlaws takes you back to re-live it. When We Were Outlaws paints a vivid portrait of activism and the search for self-identity, set against the turbulent landscape of multiple struggles for social change that swept hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets.
The end of straight supremacy : realizing gay liberation by Shannon Gilreath
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 G54 2011
ISBN: 0521181046
Publication Date: 2011
Faith, politics, and sexual diversity in Canada and the United States by edited by David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox
Call Number: HQ76.3.C2 F35 2011
ISBN: 0774820098
My desire for history : essays in gay, community, and labor history by Allan Bérubé ; edited with an introduction by John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman.
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B466 2011
ISBN: 0807871958
The New York times on gay and lesbian issues by Susan Burgess
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B87 2011
ISBN: 1604265930
Out and running : gay and lesbian candidates, elections, and policy representation by Donald P. Haider-Markel
Call Number: HQ76.3.U6 H34 2010
ISBN: 1589016998
Great speeches on gay rights by edited by James Daley
Call Number: HQ76.5 .G74 2010
ISBN: 0486475123
Travels in a gay nation : portraits of LGBTQ Americans by Philip Gambone
Call Number: HQ75.2 .G36 2010
ISBN: 0299236846
Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music by Eileen M. Hayes; Linda Tillery (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML82 .H42 2010
ISBN: 0252076982
Publication Date: 2010-02-26
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's involvement in the women's music festival scene, the ramifications of their performances as drag kings in those environments, and the challenges and joys of a black lesbian retreat based on the feminist festival model. With acuity and candor, longtime feminist activist Hayes elucidates why this music scene matters. Veteran vocalist, percussionist, producer, and cultural historian Linda Tillery provides a foreword.
The Red in the Rainbow: Sexuality, Socialism and LGBT Liberation by Hannah Dee
Call Number: HQ76.5 .D44 2010
ISBN: 1905192703
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
*At YRL. This inspiring story of the fight for sexual liberation travels across continents and centuries, uncovering a radical struggle including the Stonewall riots in 1969 and the mass movement against Apartheid South Africa that achieved the first inclusion of LGBT rights in a constitution. This is a remarkably hopeful account of the way women and men have made history even in the most difficult circumstances. It should be read by every activist who aspires to win a world free from oppression and to realise the unfinished dream of liberation that so many have fought for.
Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C37 2010
ISBN: 0312671938
Publication Date: 2010-05-25
In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the landscape of homosexual society quite literally overnight. Since then, the term 'Stonewall' itself has become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights. Based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files and over a decade of intensive research, Stonewall tells the definitive story of this singular event in history.

LGBT Rights Movement/History: 2000-2009

My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out Into the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin
Call Number: ML420.D573 A3 2009
ISBN: 1593501072
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
Music legend Alix Dobkin chronicles for the first time her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973. She also talks about growing up in a Communist family and joining the Party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts. Dobkin discusses her influences, such as Lead Belly and Pete Seeger, entering the burgeoning folk music scene of Greenwich Village and meeting the up-and-coming Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby and John Sebastian. Rich in period detail, storytelling and outspoken politics, this is essential reading for lovers of music and history.
Moral panics, sex panics : fear and the fight over sexual rights by edited by Gilbert Herdt
Call Number: HQ76.8.U6 M67 2009
ISBN: 0814737234
Sexuality and socialism : history, politics, and theory of LGBT liberation by Sherry Wolf
Call Number: HQ76.5 .W65 2009
ISBN: 1931859795
The straight state : sexuality and citizenship in twentieth-century America by Margot Canaday
Call Number: HQ75.16.U6 C36 2009
ISBN: 0691135983
Smash the church, smash the state! : the early years of gay liberation by edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S63 2009
ISBN: 0872864979
Memoirs of an Old Dyke by Jinx Beers
Call Number: HQ75.4.B44 A3 2008
ISBN: 0595526241
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the "big" depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pioneer for the lesbian/gay rights movement in Southern California and the founder of the world's longest running lesbian newspaper. Jinx, who acquired the first name from an older sister and eventually made it legal, joined the U.S. Air Force when she was eighteen to get away from her home life-and never looked back. She used her G.I. Bill to get a college degree and spent the next eighteen years on the UCLA campus in research in traffic safety. Meanwhile, the action on Christopher Street raised the conscience of many lesbians and gays who began to join the agitation for lesbian/gay rights. Ferment in the Los Angeles community lead to Jinx's founding of The Lesbian News in 1976. Although she is no longer associated with the newspaper, it has been published continuously for more than thirty years. Now seventy-five years old, Jinx has written her autobiography. This is the inside information on what makes this "Feminist Who Changed America" tick. For those who are interested in understanding one lesbian activist's life, read on.
Value war : public opinion and the politics of gay rights by Paul R. Brewer
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 B74 2008
ISBN: 0742562107
The dividends of dissent : how conflict and culture work in lesbian and gay marches on Washington by Amin Ghaziani
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G53 2008
ISBN: 0226289966
Gay rights and moral panic : the origins of America’s debate on homosexuality by Fred Fejes
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 F45 2008
ISBN: 1403980691
Queer America : a GLBT history of the 20th century by Vicki L. Eaklor
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 E35 2008
ISBN: 0313337497
Same sex, different politics : success and failure in the struggles over gay rights by Gary Mucciaroni
Call Number: HQ76.5 .M83 2008
ISBN: 0226544095
Publication Date: 2008
The lesbian and gay movements : assimilation or liberation by Craig A. Rimmerman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 R58 2008
ISBN: 0813340543
Respectably queer : diversity culture in LGBT activist organizations by Jane Ward
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 W37 2008
ISBN: 0826516076
How the religious right shaped lesbian and gay activism by Tina Fetner
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 F48 2008
ISBN: 0816649170
*At Young Research Library.
Great events from history : Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender events, 1848-2006 by edited by Lillian Faderman, et al.
Call Number: HQ73 .G74 2007
ISBN: 1587652633
Publication Date: 2007
An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News by Amy Hoffman
Call Number: HQ75.4.H65 A3 2007
ISBN: 1558496203
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
This is a vivid, funny portrait of the four tumultuous years a young editor spent working in the gay press. the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word. Provocative, informative, inspiring, and absurd, with a small circulation but a huge influence, Gay Community News produced a generation of leaders, writers, and friends. In addition to capturing the heady atmosphere of the times - the victories, controversies, and tragedies - Hoffman's memoir is also her personal story, written with wit and insight, of growing up in a political movement; of her deepening relationships with charismatic, talented, and sometimes utterly weird coworkers; and of trying to explain it all to her large Jewish family.
Gay conservatives : group consciousness and assimilation by Kenneth W. Cimino
Call Number: HQ76.85 .C56 2007
ISBN: 1560236086
Come out and win : organizing yourself, your community, and your world by Sue Hyde
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H93 2007
ISBN: 0807079723
Out of the past : gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present by Neil Miller
Call Number: HQ76.25 .M56 2006
ISBN: 1555838707
*At Young Research Library and College Library.
Sexual politics : the gay person in America today by Shannon Gilreath
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 G55 2006
ISBN: 1931968349
Sex wars : sexual dissent and political culture by Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter
Call Number: HQ23 .D78 2006
ISBN: 0415978734
Straightforward : how to mobilize heterosexual support for gay rights by Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 A97 2005
ISBN: 0691121346
Gay rights by Rachel Kranz, Tim Cusick
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 K73 2005
ISBN: 0816058105
*revised edition.
Handbook of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender administration and policy by edited by Wallace Swan
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H36 2004
ISBN: 0824747917
The long arc of justice : lesbian and gay marriage, equality, and rights by Richard D. Mohr
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M643 2005
ISBN: 0231135203
Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum; Penny Sablove
Call Number: HQ75.5 .L4384 2005
ISBN: 1560233370
Publication Date: 2005-09-22
One of the driving forces in the lives of many lesbians is the search for community in a society that favors heterosexuality and often turns a cold shoulder toward women who love women. Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet takes you inside flourishing lesbian communities--physical, spiritual, and virtual (online)--that provide practical help, emotional support, and much-needed outlets for creative expression. Exploring communities functioning in harmony with general American society as well as separatist groups, "festival communities" which form for short times annually, and informal online groups offering meaningful communication to physically isolated lesbians, this book offers a ray of light to those whose search is still ongoing. It also provides much-needed analysis of the current state of lesbian communities--some decades old now--for educators, researchers, and social scientists.
Gay and lesbian rights organizing : community-based strategies by Yolanda C. Padilla, editor
Call Number: HQ76.5 .G385 2004
ISBN: 1560232749
Out in the redwoods : documenting gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender history at the University of California, Santa Cruz 1965-2003 by edited by Irene Reti
Call Number: LD781.S52 O98 2004
ISBN: 0972334319
Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution by David Carter
Call Number: HQ76 .C315 2004
ISBN: 0312200250
*At Young Research Library and College Library.
Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history by edited by Walter L. Williams and Yolanda Retter
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G37 2003
ISBN: 0313306966
Queer in America : sex, the media, and the closets of power by Michelangelo Signorile
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 S57 2003
ISBN: 0299193748
Leading the parade : conversations with America’s most influential lesbians and gay men by Paul D. Cain
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 C345 2002
ISBN: 0810841398
The world turned : essays on gay history, politics, and culture by John D’Emilio
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D454 2002
ISBN: 0822330237
Making gay history : the half-century fight for lesbian and gay equal rights by Eric Marcus
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 M36 2002
ISBN: 0060933917
*See also Eric Marcus, Making History: the struggle for gay and lesbian equal rights, 1945-1990: an oral history (HarperPerennial, 1993).
Departing from deviance : a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America by Henry L. Minton
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M56 2002
ISBN: 0226530442
From identity to politics : the lesbian and gay movements in the United States by Craig A. Rimmerman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 R56 2002
ISBN: 156639905X
Come out fighting : a century of essential writing on gay and lesbian liberation by edited by Chris Bull
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C66 2001
ISBN: 1560253258
The gay rights movement by editor, Vincent J. Samar ; introduction by Andrew Sullivan
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G383 2001
ISBN: 1579582257
Modern American queer history by Allida M. Black, editor
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M63 2001
ISBN: 156639872X
Sexual identities, queer politics by edited by Mark Blasius
Call Number: HQ76.5 .S49 2001
ISBN: 0691058679
Perfect enemies : the battle between the religious right and the gay movement by Chris Bull and John Gallagher
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G355 2001
ISBN: 1568331789
Sexual strangers : gays, lesbians, and dilemmas of citizenship by Shane Phelan
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 P48 2001
ISBN: 1566398282
Everyday mutinies : funding lesbian activism by Nanette K. Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum, editors
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 E84 2001
ISBN: 1560232587
Circles of Power: Shifting Dynamics in a Lesbian-Centered Community by Barbara Summerhawk (Editor); La Verne Gagehabib (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.3.U52 O77 2000
ISBN: 1892281139
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
A compelling study of the Southern Oregon Women's Community, one of the most vital and dynamic alternative communities to take root during America's back to the land movement of the 1970s. The editors provide an in-depth analysis of the roots, heart, and spirit of this lively and largely lesbian circle of women which extends from the border of Northern California up the I-5 corridor through Eugene, Oregon.
Creating change : sexuality, public policy, and civil rights by edited by John D’Emilio, William B. Turner, Urvashi Vaid
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C74 2000
ISBN: 0312243758
The politics of gay rights by edited by Craig A. Rimmerman, Kenneth D. Wald, and Clyde Wilcox
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 P65 2000
ISBN: 0226719995
To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America : a history by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 F35 2000
ISBN: 0618056971

LGBT Rights Movement/History: 1989-1999

Gays and lesbians in the democratic process : public policy, public opinion and political representation by edited by Ellen D.B. Riggle and Barry L. Tadlock
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G39 1999
ISBN: 0231115857
This is what lesbian looks like : dyke activists take on the 21st century by edited by Kris Kleindienst
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 T55 1999
ISBN: 1563411172
Gay politics, urban politics : identity and economics in the urban setting by Robert W. Bailey
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B35 1999
ISBN: 0231096631
Out for good : the struggle to build a gay rights movement in America by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C58 1999
ISBN: 0684810913
Identity and the case for gay rights : race, gender, religion as analogies by David A.J. Richards
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 R53 1999
ISBN: 0226712095
Friends & family : true stories of gay America’s straight allies by by Dan Woog
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 W66 1999
ISBN: 1555834914
Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women's Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris
ISBN: 1555834779
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
*Available as eBook (UCLA only); also SRLF. Women's music festivals have been an integral part of both the shaping of lesbian culture and the emergence of women as a musical force. This new book takes the reader on a remarkable backstage tour of the rollicking, legendary world of these festivals and presents an exhilarating insider's journey through this cultural phenomena that has made an important contribution to both musical history and women's history.
Tales of the Lavender Menace : a memoir of liberation by Karla Jay
Call Number: HQ75.4.J38 A3 1999
ISBN: 0465083641
*Available as an eBook (UCLA only); also at Young Research Library.
Trailblazers : profiles of America’s gay and lesbian elected officials by Ken Yeager
Call Number: E840.6 .Y43 1999
ISBN: 078900299X
Admission accomplished : the Lesbian nation years, 1970-75 by by Jill Johnston
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 J66 1998
ISBN: 1852424508
*At Young Research Library.
American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 E83 1998
ISBN: 0520206339
Publication Date: 1998-09-30
Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an urban subculture created by stigmatized and invisible men and women evolved into a vital public community with an activist political agenda and an influential position in contemporary American culture. Detailing what he calls the "political economy of the closet," Escoffier argues that the market process often played a crucial role (for better or for worse) in the emergence of gay and lesbian communities, and conversely, that these new communities have significantly impacted the American marketplace. From the development of a camp sensibility in popular culture--inspired by the erotic exhibitionism of drag queens--to the public reformation of safer-sex guidelines, Escoffier demonstrates how the gay movement has gradually acquired both social authority and recognition as a booming market. Throughout the ongoing struggle for legitimacy, gays and lesbians have had to negotiate the historical tension between the homoeroticism that courses through American culture and periodic outbreaks of homophobic paranoia. Escoffier follows the lesbian and gay movement across the contested terrain of American political life between the poles of multiculturalism and the religious right, to reveal how sexual minorities constitute a challenge to American society even as they are thoroughly integrated as citizens and kin. From McCarthy-era witchhunts to the activism of Queer Nation, Escoffier vividly describes the characteristic American homosexual journey through the tangled political web of authenticity, identity, and community.
*Also available as an ebook (UC users only): American Homo
Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender public policy issues : a citizen’s and administrator’s guide to the new cultural struggle by Wallace Swan, editor
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G358 1997
ISBN: 0789002507
Anti-gay rights : assessing voter initiatives by edited by Stephanie L. Witt and Suzanne McCorkle
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 A67 1997
ISBN: 0275954617
We are everywhere : a historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics by edited by Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan
Call Number: HQ76 .W33 1997
ISBN: 0415908590
The many faces of gay : activists who are changing the nation by Arthur D. Kahn
Call Number: HQ76.8.U52 N54 1997
ISBN: 0275953661
Private lives, public conflicts : battles over gay rights in American communities by James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, Kenneth D. Wald
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 B87 1997
ISBN: 1568022786
Publication Date: 1997
The queer question : essays on desire and democracy by by Scott Tucker ; with a foreword by Sarah Schulman
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 T88 1997
ISBN: 0896085775
Beyond queer : challenging gay left orthodoxy by edited by Bruce Bawer
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 B49 1996
ISBN: 0684827662
Try this at home! : a do-it-yourself guide to winning lesbian and gay civil rights policy : an ACLU guidebook by Matthew A. Coles
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C65 1996
ISBN: 1565843096
The lavender vote : lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in American electoral politics by Mark Hertzog
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H49 1996
ISBN: 0814735304
The invention of heterosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Duggan
Call Number: HQ23 .K37 1996
ISBN: 0226426017
*Reading Room has 1996 edition; Amazon links to new 2007 edition.
Coming home to America : a road map to gay & lesbian empowerment by by Torie Osborn
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 O82 1996
ISBN: 0312145721
The gay and lesbian movement : references and resources by Robert B. Marks Ridinger
Call Number: HQ76.5 .R53 1996
ISBN: 0816173737
Virtually normal : an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
Call Number: HQ76.25 .S85 1996
ISBN: 0679746145
Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old, a Celebration of the Lesbian Experience by Karla Jay (Editor)
Call Number: HQ75.5 .D95 1995
ISBN: 0465039081
Publication Date: 1996-05-31
Written by lesbians of different ages, races and religions--and compiled by one of the gay movement's best-known writers and activists--these original essays give vibrant voice to the diversity of the lesbian experience. Celebrating the many ways in which the lesbian experience is unique from all others, many of these pieces focus on specific lesbian concerns such as sexual practices, raising children and higher incidence of certain illnesses.Beyond pointing out these differences, the essays also provide a comprehensive view of the many phases of lesbian life by covering diverse topics like body piercing, coming out and work. Short narratives--"To Mother or Not to Mother," "Confessions of a Lesbian Vampire," "About Being an Old Lesbian in Love," and more--complement and enrich the main essays, adding a unique personal tone to the collection. A mix of the serious and the irreverent, Dyke Life is an important contribution to gay and lesbian literature.
*Also available as an eBook (UC users only): Dyke Life
The question of equality : lesbian and gay politics in America since Stonewall by edited by David Deitcher ; with a foreword by Armistead Maupin
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 Q47 1995
ISBN: 0684800306
How to make the world a better place for gays and lesbians by Una Fahy
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 F328 1995
ISBN: 0446670413
Virtual equality : the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian liberation by Urvashi Vaid
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 V35 1995
ISBN: 0385472994
Long road to freedom : the Advocate history of the gay and lesbian movement by edited by Mark Thompson ; foreword by Randy Shilts
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 L65 1994
ISBN: 0312095368
Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: HQ75.5 .F33 1994
ISBN: 0688133304
A more perfect union : why straight America must stand up for gay rights by Richard D. Mohr
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M643 1994
ISBN: 0807079332
Created equal : why gay rights matter to America by Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 N38 1994
ISBN: 0312117647
One million strong : the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights by photographs by Cece Cox & Lisa Means ; text by Lisa Pope
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C69 1993
ISBN: 1555832474
A Queer Nation by edited by Andrew Kopkind
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 Q44 1993
*Special issue of The Nation, July 5, 1993 (Vol. 257, No. 1).
Stonewall by Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D85 1993
ISBN: 0452272068
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights: An Oral History by Eric Marcus
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 M36 1993
ISBN: 0060922222
Publication Date: 1993-05-01
Contested closets : the politics and ethics of outing by Larry Gross
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 G76 1993
ISBN: 0816621799
Out of the closets : voices of gay liberation by edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young ; with a foreword by John D’Emilio
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 O88 1992
ISBN: 0814741835
20th Anniversary edition.
The gay and lesbian liberation movement by Margaret Cruikshank
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 C78 1992
ISBN: 0415906482
Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 F33 1992
ISBN: 0140171223
About time : exploring the gay past by Martin Duberman
Call Number: HQ76.25 .D83 1991
ISBN: 0452010810
Publication Date: 1991
Invisible Lives: The Truth About Millions of Women-Loving Women by Martha B. Barrett
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 B73 1990
ISBN: 0060973315
Publication Date: 1990-08-01
Another mother tongue : gay words, gay worlds by Judy Grahn.
Call Number: HQ76.25.U5 G73 1990
ISBN: 0807079111
After the ball : how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gays in the ’90s by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 K57 1989
ISBN: 0452264987

Older Titles/Classics: 1950-1989

In search of gay America: women and men in a time of change. Neil Miller. (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989) HQ76.3.U5 M55 1989

Gay in America: an Examiner special report. (San Franciso Examinier, 1989) HQ76.3.U5 G374 1989

Looking at gay and lesbian life. Warren J. Blumenfeld and Dianne Raymond. (Philosophical Library, 1988) HQ76.3.U5 B58 1988

Gays/justice: a study of ethics, society, and law. Richard D. Mohr. (Columbia University Press, 1998) HQ76.3.U5 M64 1988

The construction of homosexuality. David F. Greenberg. (University of Chicago Press, 1988) HQ76.25 .G74 1988

Gay spirit: myth and meaning. Mark Thompson. (St. Martin's Press, 1987). HQ76.25 .T48 1987

Lesbian Land. Edited by Joyce Cheney. (Word Weavers, 1985) HQ75.6.U5 L38 1985

Homosexuality: sacrilege, vision, politics. Edited by Robert Boyers and George Steiner. (Skidmore College, 1983) HQ76 .H64 1983

No turning back: lesbian and gay liberation of the '80s. Gerre Goodman, et al. (New Society Publishers, 1983) HQ76.8.U5 N6 1983

Society and the healthy homosexual. George Weinberg. (St. Martin's Press, 1983). HQ76 .W38 1983

The homosexualization of America. Dennis Altman. (Beacon Press, 1983) HQ76.3.U5 A4 1983 *WRR also has 1982 ed.

This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color. Editors Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa. (Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983) PS509.F44 T5 1983

Women's Culture: The Women's Renaissance of the Seventies. Edited by Gayle Kimball (Scarecrow Press, 1981). HQ1426 .W6634 1981

The politics of homosexuality. Toby Marotta. (Houghton Mifflin, 1981) HQ76.8.U5 M37 1981

Homosexuality, a history. Vern L. Bullough. (New American Library, 1979) HQ76.25 .B84

Gay sunshine interviews. Edited by Winston Leyland. Volumes 1-2. (Gay Sunshine Press, 1978-1982) NX163 .G39 1978

The view from the closet: essays on gay life and liberation, 1973-1977. A. Nolder Gay. 1st ed. (Union Park Press, 1978) HQ76.8.U5 G35 1978

Word is Out: stories of some of our lives. Nancy Adair and Casey Adair. (New Glide Publications, 1978) HQ76.3.U5 A19 1978 *At College Library and SRLF; also at Young Research Library, HQ76.3.U5 A19. Companion to the film of the same name, re-released in 2010.

Gay American history: lesbians and gay men in the U.S.A.: a documentary. Jonathan Katz. (Crowell, 1976) HQ76.3.U5 K37 1976

Country Lesbians: The Story of The WomanShare Collective. (WomanShare Books, 1976) HQ75.6.U5 C68 1976

The gay crusaders. Kay Tobin and Randy Wicker. (Arno Press, 1975) HQ76.8.U5 T6 1975 *At Young Research Library.

Christopher and gay: a partisan's view of the Greenwich Village homosexual scene. Wallace Hamilton. (Saturday Review Press, 1973) HQ76.3.U5 H35 1973

Lesbian nation: the feminist solution. Jill Johnston. (Simon and Schuster, 1973) HQ76.3.U5 J6

The gay liberation book: writings and photographs on gay (men's) liberation. Edited by Len Richmond & Gary Noguera. (Ramparts Press, 1973) HQ76.5 .G39 1973

Sappho was a right-on woman: a liberated view of lesbianism. Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love. (Stein and Day, 1972) HQ76 .A134s *At Young Research Library and College Library; WRR has 1985 edition, HQ75.5 .A23 1985.

Out of the closets: the sociology of homosexual liberation. Laud Humphreys. (Prentice-Hall, 1972) HQ76.8.U5 H84

Out of the closets: voices of gay liberation. Edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young. (Douglas Book Corporation, 1972) HQ76.8.U5 O88 1972 *See also 1992 edition, above.

The homosexual dialectic. Edited by Joseph A. McCaffrey with the special assistance of Suzanne M. Hartung. (Prentice-Hall, 1972) HQ76.8.U5 M39 1972

Homosexual: oppression and liberation. Dennis Altman. (Dutton, 1971; Discus Books, 1973) HQ76 .A468 1971; HQ76 .A468 1973. *Reading Room also has 1993 edition, (New York University Press), HQ76 .A468 1993

Dancing the gay lib blues: a year in the homosexual liberation movement. Arthur Bell. (Simon and Schuster, 1971) HQ76.8.U5 B43 *Gay Activists Alliance.

On being different: what it means to be a homosexual. Merle Miller. (Random House, 1971) HQ76 .M55 1971

The gay militants. Donn Teal. (Stein and Day, 1971) HQ76.8.U5 T43 1971

Homosexual behavior among males: a cross-cultural and cross-species investigation. Wainwright Churchill. (Prentice-Hall, 1971) HQ76 .C475 1971

The homosexual and his society: a view from within. Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy. (Citadel Press, 1963) HQ76 .C59 1963

The homosexual in America: a subjective approach. Donald Webster Cory; introduction by Albert Ellis. (Greenberg, 1951) HQ76 .C6 1951

LGBT History: Pre-Stonewall (before 1969)

Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, The American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh by John Gilbert McCurdy
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 M39 2024
ISBN: 9781421448534
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
The fascinating story of a British army chaplain's buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America. On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a man. Newburgh's enemies cited his flamboyant appearance, defiance of military authority, and seduction of soldiers as proof of his low character. Consumed by fears that the British Empire would soon be torn asunder, his opponents claimed that these supposed crimes against nature translated to crimes against the king. In Vicious and Immoral, historian John McCurdy tells this compelling story of male intimacy and provides an unparalleled glimpse inside eighteenth-century perceptions of queerness. By demanding to have his case heard, Newburgh invoked Enlightenment ideals of equality, arguing passionately that his style of dress and manner should not affect his place in the army or society. His accusers equated queer behavior with rebellion, and his defenders would go on to join the American cause. Newburgh's trial offers some clues to understanding a peculiarity of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century: while gay acts were prohibited by law in much of the British empire, the newly formed United States was comparatively uninterested in legislating against same-sex intimacy. McCurdy imagines what life was like for a gay man in early America and captures the voices of those who loved and hated Newburgh, revealing how sexuality and revolution informed one another. Vicious and Immoral is the first book to place homosexuality in conversation with the American Revolution, and it dares us to rethink the place of LGBTQ people in the founding of the nation.
*Also available as audiobook (UCLA users only)
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love by Laurie Marhoefer
Call Number: HQ76.5 .M37 2022
ISBN: 9781487505813
Publication Date: 2022
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour around the world. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas. Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler's Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.
*Also available online (UC users only)
A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney by Scott Bane
Call Number: PS29.M35 B36 2022
ISBN: 1625346379
Publication Date: 2022-06-17
After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F. O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression. During a hospital stay, years into their relationship, Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that "never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me. Every day is a new discovery of your wealth." Situating the couple's private correspondence alongside other sources, Scott Bane tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States. From the vantage point of the present day, with marriage equality enacted into law, Bane provides a window into the realities faced by same-sex couples in the early twentieth century, as they maintained relationships in the face of overt discrimination and the absence of legal protections.
*Also available online (UC users only)
An Angel in Sodom: Henry Gerber and the Birth of the Gay Rights Movement by Jim Elledge
Call Number: HQ75.8.G473 E45 2023
ISBN: 9781641605663
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation. Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the army for employment. After his release, he explored Chicago's gay subculture: cruising Bughouse Square, getting arrested for "disorderly conduct," and falling in love. He was institutionalized for being gay, branded an "enemy alien" at the end of World War I, and given a choice: to rejoin the army or be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary. Gerber re-enlisted and was sent to Germany in 1920. In Berlin, he discovered a vibrant gay rights movement, which made him vow to advocate for the rights of gay men at home. He founded the Society for Human Rights, the first legally recognized US gay-rights organization, on December 10, 1924. When police caught wind of it, he and two members were arrested. He lost his job, went to court three times, and went bankrupt. Released, he moved to New York, disheartened. Later in life, he joined the DC chapter of the Mattachine Society, a gay-rights advocacy group founded by Harry Hay who had heard of Gerber's group, leading him to found Mattachine. An Angel in Sodom is the first and long overdue biography of the founder of the first US gay rights organization.
*Also available online (UC users only)
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement by Wendy L. Rouse
Call Number: JK1896 .R68 2022
ISBN: 9781479813940
Publication Date: 2022-05-24
The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a "respectable" public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women's suffrage more palatable to the public. Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity, family, space, and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. Queer suffragists also built lasting alliances and developed innovative strategies in order to protect their most intimate relationships, ones that were ultimately crucial to the success of the suffrage movement. Public Faces, Secret Lives is the first work to truly recenter queer figures in the women's suffrage movement, highlighting their immense contributions as well as their numerous sacrifices.
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams by Jonathan Ned Katz
Call Number: HQ75.4.A38 K38 2021
ISBN: 1641605162
Publication Date: 2021-05-18
"On these pages, Eve Adams rises up, loves, rebels--her times, eerily resembling our own." --Joan Nestle, cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives and author of A Restricted Country. Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book, Lesbian Love. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912, took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in 1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. Adams's bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the US Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest. Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and of attempted sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her. Adams was jailed and then deported back to Europe, and ultimately murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz. In The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, acclaimed historian Jonathan Ned Katz has recovered the extraordinary story of an early, daring activist.Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams, and the publisher reprints the long-lost text of Adams's rare, unique book Lesbian Love.
Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky
Call Number: HQ76.3.U6 L96 2021
ISBN: 022676964X
Publication Date: 2021-05-24
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself--debates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.
Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture by Aaron Lecklider
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 L59 2021
ISBN: 0520381424
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.
An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert & John Gregg Allerton by Nicholas L. Syrett
Call Number: HQ76.35.U6 S97 2021
ISBN: 022663874X
Publication Date: 2021-04-05
In 1922 Robert Allerton--described by the Chicago Tribune as the "richest bachelor in Chicago"--met a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship's profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.
The Deviant's War by Eric Cervini
Call Number: HQ75.8.K35 C47 2020
ISBN: 9780374139797
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, 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'sThe 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.
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
Call Number: HQ77.9 .M26 2020
ISBN: 1108483801
Publication Date: 2020-03-26
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women's rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of 'female husband' in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.
Men Without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation Before Stonewall by John Ibson
Call Number: HQ76.3.U6 I27 2019
ISBN: 022665611X
Publication Date: 2019-10-22
For many men of various sexual inclinations, the Second World War offered an unprecedented release from the constraints of civilian life. However, when they returned home they had to face the harsh realities of a restrictive society. Men Without Maps continues the story of these men, whom John Ibson first gave voice to in The Mourning After. Here he uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few, if any, direct, affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexual men had plenty of cultural maps--provided by their parents, social institutions, and nearly every engine of popular culture--in the years before Pride parades, social organizations for queer persons, or publications devoted to them, gay men lacked such guides. In his survey of the years from shortly before the war up to the gay rights movement of the late 1960s and early '70s, Ibson considers male couples, who balanced domestic contentment with exterior repression, as well as single men, whose solitary lives illuminate unexplored aspects of the queer experience. Men Without Maps shows how, in spite of the obstacles they faced, midcentury gay men found ways to assemble their lives and senses of self at a time of limited social acceptance.
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Call Number: HQ73.3.U62 B76 2019
ISBN: 1250169917
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Hugh Ryan's When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history--a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn's queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic.
The Narrative of Lucy Ann Lobdell: A Woman's Case for Equality by Lisa Macchia Ohliger, editor.
Call Number: HQ77.8.L63 A3 2018
ISBN: 1594163022
Publication Date: 2018-08-17
Published in 1855, a rare autobiography of a woman who was persecuted for living in a traditional masculine role, Lucy Ann Lobdell (1829-1912) was an ordinary woman whose extraordinary life was shaped by personal strife and the hardship of life in early nineteenth-century upstate New York. Struggling with an abusive husband, a young child, ailing parents, and financial strain, Lucy did what was necessary to support her family. In a rural world defined by farming and lumbering, she dressed, labored, and lived in a traditional masculine role. Her prowess as a rifle shot and fiddle player were known locally, but because of her unconventional, androgynous lifestyle, she became a target of public gossip and ridicule. Educated and eloquent, Lucy penned and published, Lucy Ann Lobdell, the Female Hunter of Delaware and Sullivan Counties, N.Y., in 1855. The narrative provides a unique look at the persecution of a woman whose only "offense" was disregard for contemporary societal norms. After her husband was killed during the Civil War, she received a widow's pension. Ostracized and eventually hospitalized in 1880, she underwent torturous treatment until she confessed to a doctor that she was "a man in all that the name implies," a self-serving report the doctor used to promote his career. Whether Lucy was a lesbian, cross dresser, or transgender, we don't know from the historical record, but as Lisa Macchia Ohliger demonstrates in The Narrative of Lucy Ann Lobdell: A Woman's Case for Equality, Lucy embodied the nascent women's rights movement. At the same time, and not far from where Lucy lived and went to school, Amelia Bloomer was advocating the right for women to wear pants and was publishing the feminist newspaper, The Lily, while Susan B. Anthony was pushing for land rights and equal pay for women. All of these issues are found in Lucy's account. Lucy's life is an illustration of the historical significance and destructive power of gender in society, and her narrative bears painful witness to the clash between taboo and survival.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy; Madeline D. Davis
Call Number: HQ75.6.U52 N45 2014
ISBN: 1138785857
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. This 20th anniversary edition republishes the book for a new generation of readers. It includes a new preface in which the authors reflect on where the last 20 years have taken them.
Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's "Sex Deviates" Program by Douglas M. Charles
Call Number: HV8144.F43 C4285 2015
ISBN: 0700621199
Publication Date: 2015-09-11
At the FBI, the "Sex Deviates" program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious "Sex Deviates" file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed and it would seem that four decades of the FBI's dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in a remarkable feat of investigative research, synthesis, and scholarly detective work, Douglas M. Charles manages to fill in the yawning blanks in the bureau's history of systematic (some would say obsessive) interest in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans in the twentieth century. His book, Hoover's War on Gays, is the first to fully expose the extraordinary invasion of US citizens' privacy perpetrated on a historic scale by an institution tasked with protecting American life.
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
Call Number: HQ1034.U5 C54 2014
ISBN: 0199335427
Publication Date: 2014-05-27
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America by Colin R. Johnson
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 J58 2013
ISBN: 1439909989
Publication Date: 2013-06-14
Most studies of lesbian and gay history focus on urban environments. Yet gender and sexual diversity were anything but rare in nonmetropolitan areas in the first half of the twentieth century. Just Queer Folks explores the seldom-discussed history of same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity in rural and small-town America during a period when the now familiar concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality were only just beginning to take shape.
Letters to One: Gay and Lesbian Voices from the 1950s and 1960s by Craig M. Loftin (Editor)
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 L485 2012
ISBN: 1438442971
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Masked Voices: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America by Craig M. Loftin
Call Number: HQ76.25 .L64 2012
ISBN: 1438440146
Publication Date: 2012
The Origins and Role of Same-Sex Relations in Human Societies by James Neill
Call Number: HQ76.25 .N45 2009
ISBN: 0786469269
Publication Date: 2009
Long before Stonewall : histories of same-sex sexuality in early America by edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D’Emilio
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H57 2007
ISBN: 0814727506
Different daughters : a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian rights movement by Marcia M. Gallo
Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 G35 2006
ISBN: 0786716347
Behind the mask of the Mattachine : the Hal Call chronicles and the early movement for homosexual emancipation by James T. Sears
Call Number: HQ75.8.C34 S43 2006
ISBN: 1560231874
Contacts desired : gay and lesbian communications and community, 1940s-1970s by Martin Meeker
Call Number: HQ76.25 .M385 2006
ISBN: 0226517357
The lavender scare : the Cold War persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government by David K. Johnson
Call Number: JK723.H6 J64 2004
ISBN: 0226404811
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s: A Memoir by Marijane Meaker
Call Number: PS3558.I366 Z77 2003
ISBN: 9781573441711
Publication Date: 2003-06-02
Patricia Highsmith, author of such classics as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, was a writer who defied simple categorization. Gore Vidal called her: 'One of the greatest modernist writers. ' The Cleveland Plain Dealer rightly commented: 'Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman. ' To young novelist Marijane Meaker, however, Highsmith was more than a role model. Shortly after the two met in a New York City lesbian bar, they became lovers and embarked on a two year romance amidst the bohemian set of Greenwich Village and the literary crowd of Fire Island. There, the pair navigated the underground lesbian scene, lunched with literary stars like Janet Flanner, shared intimacies, and gossiped with abandon. Written with wit and brassy candor, Highsmith: A Romance of 1950 is a revealing look at the controversial icon of popular American fiction.
*Also available online (UCLA users only)
Before Stonewall : activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context by Vern L. Bullough, editor ; Judith M. Saunders, Sharon Valente, associate editors ; C. Todd White, assistant editor
Call Number: HQ76.5 .B44 2002
ISBN: 1560231920
Sexual politics, sexual communities : the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D’Emilio
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 D45 1998
ISBN: 0226142671
A few doors west of hope : the life and times of dauntless Don Slater by Joseph Hansen
Call Number: HQ75.8.S63 H36 1998
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale
Call Number: F1656.C377 S86 1997
ISBN: 9781857023602
Publication Date: 1997
*At YRL.
A biography of Marion "Joe" Carstairs, the fastest female speedboat racer of the 'twenties, describes her life as a wealthy and eccentric lesbian and unofficial ruler on a Caribbean island.
The oldest gay couple in America : a seventy-year journey through same-sex America by Gean Harwood
Call Number: HQ76.3.U5 H37 1997
ISBN: 1559724269
Growing up before Stonewall : life stories of some gay men by edited by Peter Nardi, David Sanders, and Judd Marmor
Call Number: HQ75.7 .G76 1994
ISBN: 0415101522
*At Young Research Library and SRLF.
Homophile studies in theory and practice by written and edited by W. Dorr Legg, et al.
Call Number: HQ75.16.U6 L44 1994
ISBN: 1879194163
Hidden from history : reclaiming the gay and lesbian past by edited by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr
Call Number: HQ76.25 .H527 1989
ISBN: 0452010675
Intimate matters : a history of sexuality in America by John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
Call Number: HQ18.U5 D45 1989
ISBN: 0226142647
*Williams Reading Room has first edition (1989).

Films

Unidad: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos. (Gregorio Davila, Roland Palencia, Mario J. Novoa, 2022). "GLLU was the greater Los Angeles area’s first major Queer Latin@ organization, and the film chronicles events surrounding GLLU at a pivotal time in the history of LGBTQ equality, women’s rights, and civil rights movements that shaped the destinies of GLLU’s communities for decades to come." Film website.

Coming Out: A 50 Year History. Phillip Siegel (The Pye Harris Legacy Project, 2017). Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only). Documentary narrated by transgender teen Jazz Jennings.

Gender Troubles: The Butches. Lisa Plourde (A Catholic Schoolgirl Gone Bad Production, 2016) DVD HQ75.6.U5 G46 2016; Film website

Pride Denied: Homonationalism and the Future of Queer Politics. Kami Chisholm (Media Education Foundation, 2016). Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film website.

Political Animals. Jonah Markowitz & Tracy Wares (2016; Kanopy Streaming, 2017). Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film website. Profiles California openly lesbian politicians Carole Migden, Sheila Kuehl, Jackie Goldberg, and Christine Kehoe.

The New Black. Yoruba Richen (Promised Land Film, 2013). DVD HQ76.27.A37 N48 2013; *Film web site; also streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only). "LGBT rights in African American communities."

Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution. Myriam Fougère (Women Make Movies, 2012) DVD HQ75.5 .L466 2012; Film information

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives. Mariposa Film Group (Milliarium Zero, 2010) DVD HQ76.3.U5 W673 2010; *Film information. See also companion book by Greg Youmans, (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011), HQ75.2 Y68 2011 (*Arts Library).

Vito. Jeffrey Schwarz (First Run Features, 2011). Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film trailer. The life of gay-rights activist Vito Russo.

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives. Aerlyn Weissman & Lynne Fernie (National Film Board of Canada, 2014) [*Originally released in 1992]. DVD HQ75.3 .F66 2014; *Film information.

Outrage. Kirby Dick (Magnolia Pictures, 2010) DVD HQ76.3.U5 O992 2010; Film information

Hand on the Pulse. Joyce Warshow (Activa Productions; Frameline, 2005)(biographical documentary about Joan Nestle, civil rights activist, feminist, and gay rights activist) DVD HQ75.4.N47 H36 2005; Film information

After Stonewall: from the riots to the millennium. John Scagliotti (First Run Features, 2005) DVD HQ76.8.U5 A384 2005; also streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only). Film information.

Stonewall Uprising. Kate Davis & David Heilbroner (PBS, 2005) Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film website.

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay. (Eric Slade (ITVS, Frameline, 2005) DVD HQ75.8.H39 H67 2005; Film website

Gay Pioneers. Glenn Holsten (WHYY, Equality Forum, 2004). DVD HQ76.8.U5 G285 2004; Film information

No Secret Anymore: The Times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon. Joan E. Biren (Frameline, 2003). DVD HQ75.3 .N62 2003; *Film information

Before Stonewall: the Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community. Greta Schiller (First Run Features, 2000; originally released in 1984.) DVD HQ76.8.U5 B45 2000z; also streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film trailer.

Out of the past. Jeff Dupre, Michelle Ferrari. (A-PIX Entertainment, 1988) HQ76.8.U5 O97 1998 Videocassette

The Question of Equality. Isaac Julien, David Meieran. (KQED Video, 1995) HQ76.8.U5 Q46 1995 Videocassette

A Simple Matter of Justice: The 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. JEB (Joan E. Biren) (Frameline, 1993) DVD HQ76.8.U5 S58 1993; *Film information

For Love and for Life: The 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. JEB (Joan E. Biren) (Frameline, 1988) DVD HQ76.8.U5 F67 1988; *Film information

The Times of Harvey Milk. Rob Epstein (20th anniversary collector's ed., New Yorker Video, 2004; originally released in 1984). DVD HQ76.8.U5 T56 2004; film information. Also streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only.)