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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

McDarrah/Getty ImagWhen you purchase an penntly reviewed book through our se, we earn an affiliate 2, 2015Lillian Farman’s “The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle” opens wh two vigt. 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.

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 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.

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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.

For much of the “gay revolutn” — and of urse still today — gay dividuals have felt prsure to rema closeted. 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.

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

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. Though Simon granted that some homosexualists live as “cent members of society, ” many, he sisted, have psychopathic personali, are different to public opn, and bee “predatory prostut. ” He extolled the state of Illois’s treatment of “homosexualist psychopathic dividuals” and remend be adopted everywhere.

Miller dissemated his theory about the homosexual’s cycl of unntrolled sire, which were as regular as women’s menstal cycl. “Three or four days each month, the homosexual’s stct [for moral cency] breaks down, and he is driven to abnormal fields of sexual practice. ” Bee the homosexual n’t ntrol himself, the doctor told the Nebraska State Medil Associatn, science mt step .

‘THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN

He and his team had terviewed 5, 300 men, askg each of them over three hundred qutns: the Ksey Study found that 46 percent of Amerin mal admted that as adults they’d “reacted” sexually to both mal and femal; 37 percent admted to havg had at least one homosexual “experience” as an adult; 10 percent said that as adults they’d been “more or ls exclively homosexual” for at least three years. 10 Two of Jim Cannon’s iends who’d jt e back om San Francis walked to Tiger’s and, spottg Cannon, me over to chat about their gay adventur up north.

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12 • • • The California Department of Alholic Beverage Control had actually been created bee of homosexuals.

13 Four years later, horrified (as they’d expected to be) by what the study told about homosexuals and their “victims, ” the legislators passed a nstutnal amendment that created a Department of Alholic Beverage Control and add a sectn to the Bs and Profsns Co that said that a liquor license uld be revoked if a place was a “rort” where “sexual perverts” ngregated.

14 The newly created ABC was charged wh matag public safety tablishments that served alhol—and homosexualy, the legislature and most of Ameri agreed, was tensely jur to the public. Unrver agents and vice squad police were sent out on fishg expedns, to fd any evince that the ABC uld e to close the doors of homosexual bars.

BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE, BY LILLIAN FARMAN

15 • • • Lbians were ls likely than homosexual men to make a sexual move on a stranger after a brief nversatn, but women agents and unrver officers were sent to lbian bars as spi. 17 At a time when bars were the only public place where homosexuals uld ngregate, the loss of any gay bar was no small thg.

Yet there was almost no public prott among gay bar-goers when Pearl’s was lost; nor when the North Coastal Area admistrator of the ABC, Sidney Feberg, clared a “vigoro” mpaign to revoke the licens of all gay tablishments the regn.

”19 But to prott, homosexuals would have had to adm they were part of a group lled “perverts” and “psychopaths. “Germs, ” “generat, ” and “perverts” he lled the homosexuals and “other lawbreakers” he ran to on his beat around Tim Square, an area he dubbed “the sewer.