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Reviewed: Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn, by Lda Hirshman (Harper, 464 pp., $27.99). Wear at least three “genr-appropriate” garments to the bar or…

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” — Library Journal (starred review)“Hirshman has produced a remarkable history of the gay-rights movement Ameri by chroniclg many of the people and events that shaped . ” — Boston Globe“Given that the gay rights saga is very much procs, the endg of Hirshman’s book is a cliffhanger, but she do a masterful job of makg her rears, whether they’re faiar wh the material or not, want to know what happens next. A good startg pot for learng about recent gay history.

VICTORY : THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN

David Murray reviews Lda Hirshman’s book on the gay rights movement, ‘Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn’ (Harper, 2012). * victory the triumphant gay revolution *

” — San Francis Chronicle“Victory is one of the most important (and readable) gay-history texts around.

VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN

Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn shows how muny buildg was sential shapg the polil force the lbian and gay muni hold today. * victory the triumphant gay revolution *

” — Philalphia Cy Paper“An clive, fascatg history of the gay rights movement that provis fertile grounds for passnate bate.

” — Shelf Awarens“Victory tells the fascatg si story of how gay activists changed Ameri for the better, not jt for themselv but for everyone. Offers perceptive parisons between the gay-rights movement and other, ncurrent movements for equaly. ” — Kirk Reviews“This exuberant history of arguably the fal and most difficult civil rights stggle relat, surprisgly upbeat fashn, the fight ‘to slowly bend the arc of history toward jtice’ for gay men and women....

” — Publishers Weekly“Before he died, gay rights hero Arthur Evans told Lda Hirshman to tell our story.

‘VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN’ BY LDA HIRSHMAN

Lda Hirshman’s popular history trac the gay rights movement om the early 20th century to the prent. * victory the triumphant gay revolution *

” — Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History and What If Someone I Know Is Gay? “Lda Hirshman’s Victory is the chronicle that the brilliant, unremtg gay movement serv. Though important chapters are yet to be wrten, this book will help the world to see that gay is good-and gettg better.

GAY REVOLUTN: HISTORY PROGRS

” — The New Yorker When the morn stggle for gay rights epted the summer of 1969, forty-ne stat outlawed sex between people of the same genr. Four s later, 2011, New York legalized gay marriage and the armed servic stopped enforcg Don't Ask, Don't Tell. : 24 cm"Drawg on rich archival material and -pth terviews, a Supreme Court lawyer and polil pund chronicl the gay rights movement, revealg how the fight for gay rights has changed the Amerin landspe for all cizens, blurrg rigid genr l and refg the fn of fay.

[357]-423) and xIntroductn: How an army of good gays won the wt -- Gays and the ci: muny first, polics later -- Red bed: tak a munist to regnize gay opprsn -- It was the sixti that did : gays get radil, radils get gay -- Stonewall uprisg: gays fally get some rpect -- The good gays fight the four horsemen: crazy, sful, crimal, and subversive -- Dyg for the movement: the terrible polil payoff of AIDS -- ACT UP: five years that shook the world -- Failed marriag and losg battl: the premature mpaign for marriage and ary service -- Foundg fathers: wng morn rights before fightg ancient battl -- Massg the troops for the last battle: the new-media gay revolutn -- Wh liberal iends: who needs enemi? Sadly, polil lumnist Lda Hirshman’s Victory is actually scribg “The Gay Revolutn’s Triumph” over Christiany.

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