Contents:
- 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
- THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
Gayle Salamon. Queer people still face a unique threat of vlence, wh the massacre at Pulse nightclub still loomg recent history, and hate-related homocis creasg by 82% om 2016 to 2017. Drawg upon primary-source documents, lerature, and cultural histori, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr history, om 1492 to the 1990s.
Hidn om History: Reclaimg the Gay and Lbian Past by Mart Bml Duberman, Martha Vic, & Gee Chncey.
“This richly revealg anthology brgs together for the first time the val new scholarly studi now liftg the veil om the gay and lbian past.
THE PLAY’S THE THG NEW BOOK ‘GAYS ON BROADWAY
Such notable rearchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smh-Rosenberg, Jefey Weeks and John D’E illumate gay and lbian life as evolved plac as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutnary Rsia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, post-World War II San Francis—and peopl as varied as South Ain black mers, Amerin Indians, Che urtiers, Japane samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban workg women. Out for Good: The Stggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement Ameri by Dudley Clenden. The thors of Out for Good, both wrers for the New York Tim, not only drew on extensive archival rerds but nducted nearly 700 terviews wh the founrs and opponents of the early gay rights movement.
’ For homophile activists of the 1950s and early 1960s, that stggle had been about beg left alone by police and policians, but for those gatherg to prott Stonewall, was about “fg themselv to society as gay men and lbians. The thors unpack queer crimal archetyp—like ‘gleeful gay killers, ’ ‘lethal lbians, ’ ‘disease sprears, ’ and;ceptive genr benrs’—to illtrate the punishment of queer exprsn, regardls of whether a crime was ever mted. The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle by Lillian Farman.
“The Gay Revolutn begs the 1950s, when gays and lbians were crimals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, church saw them as sners, and society victimized them wh hatred. Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lbian Prs Ameri by Rodger Strematter.