"Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn" by Jim Downs

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• ‘STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN’ BY JIM DOWNS
• STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
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• STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN EPUB
• MORE THAN JT SEX: A CONVERSATN ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE '70S
• STAND BY ME : THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• STAND FOTTEN HISTORY GAY (63 RULTS)
• STAND BY ME : THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN TAPA BLANDA – 1 FEBRERO 2020
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‘STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN’ BY JIM DOWNS

Its proprietor, Craig Rodwell, was an eccentric and prcipled philosopher/activist who eply fluenced the people and events that were sential to the changg social perceptn of homosexualy. This anecdote about the personal and the polil characteriz the exhstive, but never exhstg, scholarship found Jim Downs’s new book, Stand By Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn.

Downs begs first by surveyg archival material donated by noted San Francis activist Tommi Avilli Mec at the William Way Communy Center Philalphia, and om there his quiry leads him to a broar quiry that reveals “how gay people built church, found newspapers, tablished bookstor, and re-thought the meang of gay inty. The bar was also home to a Metropolan Communy Church (MCC), and most of the victims had jt attend the service which the gay church sponsored the bar every Sunday night. In an era before cell phon or ter, Down tails how gay people around the untry quickly learned of the massacre, and of the difference of public officials towards the aths, and the disda wh which they held the victims.

STAND BY ME: THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

It was not unual for gay church to meet gay bars those days, and Downs lot this event not only gay history, but the larger ntext of Amerin vlence toward mori, cg the 1963 bombg Birmgham at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Each chapter leads to the next, a reful unlayerg of another dimensn of the plex cultural, lerary, social, and polil exprsns of the lbian and gay muny the years before AIDS.

Whe Reformg Sodom: Prottants and the Rise of Gay Rights foc on the bat on homosexualy the male church, Downs revers the story of gay people self-termg their spirual liv groups like Digny for Gay Catholics, Integry for Gay Epispalians, and the like. He quot one early MCC mister ndidly addrsg the sex-affirmg theology and practice they were novatg gay church, “There is no nflict for me worshipg J at service and then nng out and suckg ck the shbs at the Fenway.

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The chapter on gay newspapers foc prcipally, though not exclively, on the Toronto-based The Body Polic, and highlights how the journalism also revered lost histori, such as that of the Pk Triangle ed to mark homosexuals Nazi prison mps, and how the symbol was transformed not only as a remr of the past but beme a symbol of ristance and rebelln the prent. His fal chapter on body image and the nstctn of the “Macho Clone” and s stctive impact on diversy as a value also speaks to our nversatns today about racism the gay muny, and the importance of Black liv and Black bodi. An unnuanced readg of this text might e one to see his tone as sex-negative, but a closer readg reveals he is simply placg this thread ntext wh the often overlooked proliferatn of the gay and lbian culture we vented almost ex-nihilo out of the maelstrom of the 1960s.

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Gay people the 1970’s found one another and together created a lexin, an idm, newspapers, prayer groups, church, bety ntts bars, bookstor of their own- a culture and history that said their name.

The 1970s reprented a moment of triumph- both polil and sexual- before the AIDS crisis the subsequent , which, the view of many, exposed the problems herent the so-lled gay liftyle" Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewr the history of gay life the 1970s, argug that the was about much more than sex and marchg the streets.

Drawg on a vast trove of untapped rerds at LGBT muny centr Los Angel, New York, and Philalphia, Downs tells movg, revelatory stori of gay people who stood together- as iends, fellow believers, and lleagu- to create a sense of muny among people who felt alienated om mastream Amerin Downs shows, gay people found one another the Metropolan Communy Church, a natnwi gay relig group the pag of the Body Polic, a newspaper that enuraged s rears to thk of their sexualy as a polil inty at the Osr Wil Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay lerary life New York Cy and at theatr puttg on Gay Amerin History, " a play that brought to the surface the endurg problem of gay and many other achievements would be largely fotten after the arrival the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed crics to claim that sex was the fg feature of gay liberatn. This rctive narrative set back the e of gay rights and has shaped the inti of gay people for sential act of historil revery, Stand by Me sh a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we thk about gay life Ameri om the 1970s to the prent day. Drawg on a vast trove of untapped rerds at LGBT muny centers Los Angel, New York, and Philalphia, Downs tells movg, revelatory stori of gay people who stood together—as iends, fellow believers, and lleagu—to create a sense of muny among people who felt alienated om mastream Amerin life.

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The sheer act of Downs' acknowledgg that not all gay men subscribed to the popular 'three Big Bs' of the time—'the Bars, Beach, and Baths'—and found their inty validated and articulated through the munal practic of Christian worship and cultural hubs (like the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop) is a rehg and vigoratg experience. Downs upends this, tailg more clive and reprentative subjects, tracg the history of gay rights as part of the ongog battle for civil rights, and verg the gay relig movement.... He has bed through a wealth of archival materials, cludg gay muny publitns, the holdgs of LGBT relig groups such as the Metropolan Communy Church (a Prottant nomatn found the late ’60s as a safe worship space for homosexuals), the personal llectns of men dog prison work on gay issu, archiv of LGBT muny centers, and reportg on LGBT life mastream publitns.

Stand by Me valiantly attempts to rrect the historil rerd and revise the harmful, outdated imag of bathho and promiscuy that plague both official and non-official acunts of the gay muny and s history.

In Stand by Me, Jim Downs achiev the imprsive feat of illtratg that the willgns of homosexuals to be out—among one another, at least—was eased by more than jt clubs, bars and bathho.

STAND BY ME : THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

By pturg the stori of gay people who have been largely silenced by history, Stand by Me sh a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we thk about gay life Ameri om the ’70s to the prent day. As this betiful, and at tim hntg, book mak clear, gay men this perd fed tellectually vibrant, spirually rich, and nourishg muni that not only staed them through some harrowg and heartwarmg tim, but that also grew more powerful as the twentieth century beme the twenty-first.

You were blissfully unaware, kept the dark for far too long, but read Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn by Jim Downs, and you may see the light on a few thgs. Years ago, when he was a llege stunt, Downs spent evengs wh his bt iend a back room the William Way Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy Center Philalphia, porg through archiv.

” It happened on June 23, 1973 New Orleans: A group of 120 gay, lbian, and straight worshippers were holdg a church service on a Sunday night on the send floor of a buildg the French Quarter. The 1970s reprented a moment of triumph -- both polil and sexual -- before the AIDS crisis the subsequent , which, the view of many, exposed the problems herent the so-lled "gay liftyle.

STAND FOTTEN HISTORY GAY (63 RULTS)

In Stand by Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn (Basic Books, 2016), the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewr the history of gay life the 1970s, argug that the was about much more than sex and marchg the streets.

Drawg on a vast trove of untapped rerds at LGBT muny centers Los Angel, New York, and Philalphia, Downs tells movg, revelatory stori of gay people who stood together -- as iends, fellow believers, and lleagu -- to create a sense of muny among people who felt alienated om mastream Amerin life. As Downs shows, gay people found one another the Metropolan Communy Church, a natnwi gay relig group; the pag of the Body Polic, a newspaper that enuraged s rears to thk of their sexualy as a polil inty; at the Osr Wil Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay lerary life New York Cy; and at theaters puttg on "Gay Amerin History, " a play that brought to the surface the endurg problem of gay opprsn.

The and many other achievements would be largely fotten after the arrival the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed crics to claim that sex was the fg feature of gay liberatn.

STAND BY ME : THE FOTTEN HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

An sential act of historil revery, Stand by Me sh a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we thk about gay life Ameri om the 1970s to the prent day.

"―Kirk Reviews"The sheer act of Downs' acknowledgg that not all gay men subscribed to the popular 'three Big Bs' of the time--'the Bars, Beach, and Baths'--and found their inty validated and articulated through the munal practic of Christian worship and cultural hubs (like the Osr Wil Memorial Bookshop) is a rehg and vigoratg experience. "―Manhattan Book Review"Stand by Me clus massacre and tragedy; s openg chapter is an emotnal rehashg of the 1973 arson attack--the most lethal targetg of gay people Amerin history until the June 12 massacre at Orlando's Pulse club--took the liv of 32 men durg a relig service.... The largt massacre of gay people Amerin history -- The gay relig movement -- The bgraphy of a bookstore -- Gay Amerin history -- The body polic -- "Prison sounds" -- Body language.

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The 1970s reprented a moment of triumph'both polil and sexual'before the AIDS crisis the subsequent , which, the view of many, exposed the problems herent the so-lled "gay liftyle". Drawg on a vast trove of untapped rerds at LGBT muny centers Los Angel, New York, and Philalphia, Downs tells movg, revelatory stori of gay people who stood together'as iends, fellow believers, and lleagu'to create a sense of muny among people who felt alienated om mastream Amerin life. An sential act of historil revery, Stand by Me sh a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we thk about gay life Ameri om the 1970s to the prent day....

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The largt massacre of gay people Amerin history --The gay relig movement --The bgraphy of a bookstore --Gay Amerin history --The body polic --"Prison sounds" --Body language.

“Fallg to the easy trap of foregroundg sex has the effect of erasg the nuance, the richns, and even the mss of people’s liv, ” wr profsor of history at Connecticut College Jim Downs his new book Stand By Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn (out March 1). Though the years leadg up to the AIDS epimic are largely thought of as a sexual ee-for-all (as picted the 2005 documentary Gay Sex the ‘70s, and Larry Kramer’s 1978 novel Faggots), clearly there was more gog on than jt fuckg, and that’s where Downs . ”He answers his qutns by focg on unsung figur and unr-examed forc wh gay culture (though his subject matter largely relat to whe gay men): the fire at New Orleans’s Up Stairs Lounge on June 24, 1973 (rultg 32 aths, Downs dubs this the “largt massacre of gay people Amerin history”), the gay relig movement of the ‘70s, Craig Rodwell (whose Osr Wil Memorial Bookstore revolutnized the ncept of gay culture), Jonathan Ned Katz (playwright and thor of Gay Amerin History), the Toronto-based newspaper The Body Polic, gays prison, and the rise of gay macho or clone culture the late ‘70s.

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I unrstood that as a historian, but at the same time I didn’t want to dimish the fact that gay men like Craig Rodwell, and others the relig movement and other plac, didn’t see such a nflict between wantg to ntribute to the movement but also have a lot of sex.

I thk when the marriage bate first started, you saw the radil, progrsive edg of the gay movement sayg, “We’re not lookg for this kd of validatn, ” and then, as soon as marriage happened, we drew a straight le to gay liberatn all the history books, like, “VICTORY!

Another quote that seemed to illtrate your philosophy was this, regardg Katz’s iology: “Katz me to realize that his cisn was born out of a particular iologil view of gay people as signifint. My book is gog to show different aspects of gay culture and I thk that’s really eful terms of thkg about curricular discs the ncept of “able past” (“a nnectn to a prev or epoch that would provi legimacy, meang, and, most of all, a genealogy to their plight”), and seems like that’s what you’re providg here. It was a way of documentg the past, was a way of beg tellectually engaged, was a way of upsettg stereotyp, and also was a way of really powerfully ditg that all of our energy should not be expend wh the tradnal nontatns wh the one of the footnot, you wre, “This book foc on the experienc of whe gay men and do not by any means purport to chart the diverse experienc of the LGBTQ muny.