Lda Hirshman’s popular history trac the gay rights movement om the early 20th century to the prent.
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- VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN PAPERBACK – ILLTRATED, JUNE 4, 2013
- VICTORY : THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN
- VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN
- ‘VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN’ BY LDA HIRSHMAN
- GAY REVOLUTN: HISTORY PROGRS
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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. ” — San Francis Chronicle“Victory is one of the most important (and readable) gay-history texts around.
” — Philalphia Cy Paper“An clive, fascatg history of the gay rights movement that provis fertile grounds for passnate bate.
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 *
” — 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. ” — Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History and What If Someone I Know Is Gay?
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 *
“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.
” — 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.
‘VICTORY: THE TRIUMPHANT GAY REVOLUTN’ BY LDA HIRSHMAN
* victory the triumphant gay revolution *
[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.
Even gay activist and Democratic strategist Richard Soris (who also served as special assistant to Print Clton) thks so. ” Wh gay marriage still the “To Do” lumn, Soris probably fears public perceptns of hubris that tend to be punished. As we exame Hirshman’s analysis of “The Triumphant Gay Revolutn, ” let’s pray that God will e to teach and to stir to actn.
Hirshman argu that while there are some siari between the black rights and the femist movements terms of tactics, the gay rights movement had a far superr strategy, and therefore achieved much more than the other movements. Gay activists’ aims, however, were much higher—not jt tolerance but approval of their difference; not separate and equal but tegrated and admired.
GAY REVOLUTN: HISTORY PROGRS
To achieve this strategy, gay lears had to make a staggerg moral claim: “Gay is good. Few Christians have grasped this sential element of the gay agenda. Gay men and women are not like most adulterers and fornitors who know their immoraly is bad but still do anyway.
Gays have nvced themselv that their moraly is superr to Christian moraly and therefore should replace . Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn. In the ve of Taylor Branch’s classic Partg of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and polil pund Lda Hirshman livers the enthrallg, groundbreakg story of the gay rights movement, revealg how a dited and rourceful mory changed Ameri forever.
As Hirshman says, “It is the moral certaty of the gay revolutn that explas why, unlike the racial and femist movements, has been able to stand up to that powerful unterforce [the morally driven relig right] and, slowly but surely, prevail. Standg firmly on this “moral foundatn, ” gay activists intified four major obstacl to achievg their strategic objective: (1) The church nsired them sful; (2) The state crimalized their sex acts; (3) Doctors—maly psychologists—thought they were crazy; and (4) The ary feared they would be traors to the natn. For gays, then, nformy wh mastream norms was not an optn.