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- ‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
- THE GAY REVOLUTN
- LILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLE
- ‘THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
- THE GAY REVOLUTN QUOT
- BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE, BY LILLIAN FARMAN
‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
A historian trac the progrs of gay rights om midcentury supprsn to the triumph of marriage equaly. * the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
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The Gay Revolutn by Lillian Farman - “This is the history of the gay and lbian movement that we’ve been wag for.” —The Washgton Post The sweep... * the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
Recent years have generated a shelf of books on the gay rights movement geared toward both scholarly and popular dienc.
Bee of such works, the broad ntours of Farman’s narrative will be faiar to many rears — the wch hunts of the 1950s; the early homophile movement driven by anizatns like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis; the Stonewall rts of 1969; the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s classifitn, the 1970s, of homosexualy as a mental disorr; the AIDS crisis; the crimalizatn of sodomy; the implementatn and repeal of the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy; and the ph for marriage Farman’s book populat even the faiar rners of gay history wh new and vivid life.
Later the book, Farman scrib how Mart chastised her dience at a Mattache nventn 1959 for nflatg gay rights wh gay rights for men.
LILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLELILLIAN FARMAN'S 'THE GAY REVOLUTN' GIV AN EPIC SWEEP TO A STORY OF REPRSN AND RISTANCE THE GAY REVOLUTION: THE STORY OF THE STRUGGLE
Lillian Farman set the amb goal of chroniclg the gay rights movement om s humble origs behd closed doors post–World War II California to th * the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
In what scholars of inty have signated the problem of “tersectnaly, ” lbians found themselv fallg between two mps, outsirs to both a male-domated homophile movement and a straight-domated women’s movement. “The Gay Revolutn” tak up the major antagonists and protagonists of the movement — the stori of Ana Bryant and Harvey Milk are particularly ronant — but this is also a self-nscly rtorative acunt, markg the ntributns of figur, straight and gay, who are ls well known.
‘THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
How do the amazg evolutn the image and stat of gays and lbians, as well as bisexual and transgenr people, affect all Amerins? What remas to be done? * the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
The psychologist Evelyn Hooker showed her lleagu 1953 that they uld not distguish between the psychologil tt rults of gays and straights, thereby begng to challenge the herence of homosexualy as a diagnostic tegory. Jeanne Manford, who helped start Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays after one of her gay sons died of a dg overdose and another was btally beaten, “opened a whole new rhetoric” by transformg “the outst homosexual to somebody’s child, a member of the fay. Tammy Smh’s open service when he challenged the Air Force’s excln of gays any acunt, this one has s bld spots.
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Farman has long been, wh Mart Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz, John D’E, Bonnie Zimmerman, Esther Newton and a handful of others, one of the premiere historians of lbian and gay Ameri. * the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
For much of the “gay revolutn” — and of urse still today — gay dividuals have felt prsure to rema closeted.
BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE, BY LILLIAN FARMAN
* the gay revolution the story of the struggle by lillian faderman *
Anonymo, ” stunng the crowd wh his assertn that “there are more than a hundred homosexual psychiatrists registered at this nventn. ” The 1987 edn of Ronald Bayer’s book “Homosexualy and Amerin Psychiatry” scribed this speech as “by far the most dramatic event of the panel, ” but uld not or would not reveal the name of the speaker. Any revolutnary would be lucky to stand a light so steady, so searchg, and so GAY REVOLUTIONThe Story of the StggleBy Lillian FarmanIlltrated.
”3 His 1947 lecture to the Internatnal Associatn of Chiefs of Police on “Homosexualists and Sex Crim, ” a mol of bigotry and flawed logic, passed for science that lay people accepted uncrilly. The “born-male homosexualists, ” he asserted, are easy to spot by their female characteristics: their walk, body ntour, voice, mannerisms, texture of sk, and also their tert hoekeepg and theatril productns.
The “women homosexualists” are fickle, always eager to add to their list of nquts, and are extremely jealo of the object of their lts.