The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle by Lillian Farman

Contents:

• BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE
• ‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ BY LILLIAN FARMAN
• THE GAY REVOLUTN
• OUTLASTG THE GAY REVOLUTN: WHERE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISM IS REALLY GOG AND HOW TO TURN THE TI
• [PDF] DOWNLOAD STONEWALL: THE RTS THAT SPARKED THE GAY REVOLUTN READ ONLINE
• THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE
• LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: 17 MT-READ BOOKS ABOUT QUEER HISTORY
• HOW THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT WON
• GAY REVOLUTN

BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE

It offers a prehensive acunt of the ntemporary movement for gay, lbian, and trans rights, om the 1950s to the current time, focg on fascatg nversatns wh polil lears, soldiers, civil advot, and reprentativ of the LGBT populatn who experience such stggl on a daily basis. In 1953, psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker monstrated to her workers that they uld not tell the difference between the psychiatric evaluatn fdgs of straight and gay people, th startg to qutn the nsens of homosexualy as a medil group (p.

As a matter of fact, nsirg that LGBTQ people are beg an creasgly mted, regnized, and visible part of society (Chan, 2021), “The Gay Revolutn” is an exceedgly important book sce illtrat the origs and fluenc of the LGBTQ movement. 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.

“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. 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.

‘THE GAY REVOLUTN,’ 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.

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. 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. Though wealthy wh, pecially femal, didn’t generally get arrted and mted to state hospals for beg homosexual, as did people like Thomas Earl and Eldridge Rhos, they weren’t unsthed by the wispread assumptn that homosexualy was a sickns and need curg.

THE GAY REVOLUTN

Their knowledge on the subject me mostly om popular media—magaz such as the wily read Collier’s, which lled homosexualy “the biggt taboo, ” and associated wh “sexual maladjtment and sex crim that twist the liv of tens of thoands of people to patterns that are as piful as they are ugly.

)I am takg the time to post what I realize is a lengthy review: to be a strong unterbalance to Brown’s iology, to alert those who may be tempted to give this book to LGBT persons as a “lovg” actn, and to expose Brown’s poor amic I addrs “Outlastg the Gay Revolutn, ” I need to lay some groundwork as to how I approach all books I would term as Christian and anti-gay and I wrote recent review of another what-God-REALLY-says-about-gays book -- wh Brown’s latt entry as no exceptn, this genre of books ignore a simple foundatnal tth.

What is referred to the Bible each of the passag ed to bolster the avalanche of morn anti-gay iologil wrg is not IS examed are biblil passag pictg vlent, abive, lt-filled, same-sex behavrs performed no ls than two lennia ago cultur where the social and sexual stat of men and women were entirely different om what we have known the past 60 to 70 such thors, Brown clud, base their entire iologil theology upon the foundatnal prumptn that people have historilly participated same-sex relatnships wh some semblance to the relatnal stcture we see Not te.

OUTLASTG THE GAY REVOLUTN: WHERE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISM IS REALLY GOG AND HOW TO TURN THE TI

Before that, if a man was attracted to a male, all was fe man-land as long as he mataed the domant role of this perd, people were fed by the role they played sex, not by the sex of the person to whom they were monumental shift of intifyg the sexual rol of people at the start of the 20th century started the transformatn of how same-sex relatnships me to be women rose stat, as ci formed, and as men began to explore sexual attractns, the teractn, which had always been associated wh excs, lt and the rctn of one partner to the role of a woman, me to be seen dynamic began to change the 1920s; would have been the first time history that there was a mimal cultural unrstandg that people of the same sex were mutually and equally word “homosexual” first appeared an English translatn of the Bible 1946. This was clearly a cultural rponse to the most perverted sexual act translators uld image to sert the New Ttament fact, Derrick Sherw Bailey, an English Anglin theologian, wrote Homosexualy and Wtern Tradns (1955) which he closely examed the cultural and legal rponse to gays.

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Together wh a team of theologians, historians, anthropologists, lawyers, and legislative lears to study homosexualy and the sodomy laws, Bailey produced a groundbreakg work that should have been the primer for all theologil wrers after him. But, was nservative Amerin church and thors had been so unncerned about gays that no one bothered to wre a book addrsg this most “abomable s” until LaHaye’s The Unhappy Gays , while certaly srned the culture om the 1930s, were ignored for the most part Christian gays were fally risg out om unr cultural and medil opprsn the early 1970s, unfortunately, the nservative relig and polil groups merged right around that time the late 1970s.

A smatterg om wh the unholy alliance saw the polarizg potential the “abomable gays” uld have on amassg unregistered and unvolved nservative th the luge of morn negative nservative wrgs on homosexualy and fah, followed by genr inty and fah was a quick overview of morn events.

____________________________The prerequise of every sgle anti-gay Christian thor, cludg Brown, is that rears mt fully ignore social and medil histori of how we have e to unrstand the role of women and the progrsn of human are some darn big oversights we need to participate to agree wh their fdgs! Specifilly, and as briefly as possible, really:The purpose of this book, we are told is to: “enurage, strengthen, spire, and rms layg out eight practil prciple that will help outlast the gay revolutn, also explag why, many ways, the gay revolutn has already failed and why has is self of s own stctn.

THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE

Lillian Farman set the amb goal of chroniclg the gay rights movement om s humble origs behd closed doors post–World War II California to the major legal victori of the Obama admistratn ncerng gay ary personnel and marriage equaly. The Gay Revolutn not only offers an update, movg the story forward to ver gay marriage, but also go back time to pture the years before the 1969 rts at the Stonewall Inn and, I hope, to bury forever the myth that the gay rights movement began at that bar Greenwich Village. ” —The Washgton Post The sweepg story of the stggle for gay and lbian rights—based on amazg terviews wh policians, ary figur, and members of the entire LGBT muny who face the challeng every fight for gay and lbian civil rights—the years of outrageo jtice, the early battl, the heart-breakg feats, and the victori beyond the dreams of the gay rights pneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the prent day.

LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: 17 MT-READ BOOKS ABOUT QUEER HISTORY

“A pellg read of a ltle-known part of our natn’s history, and of dividuals whose stori range om heart-wrenchg to spirg to enragg to motivatnal” (Chigo Tribune), The Gay Revolutn pats a nuanced portra of the LGBT civil rights movement. She digs ep to media and legislative archiv to nstct a prehensive narrative, begng the 1950s wh the spegoatg of homosexuals unr "vag-lewds" law and the first formulatn of homosexuals as a mory group, and ntug to the current and recent legal fights around the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act (ENDA), hate crime legislatn, and marriage equaly. Dpe the massive cultural shift of recent years, those who value tradnal marriage, genr differenc and sexual pury have the opportuny to w bat the g years, while the gay revolutn has sown the seeds of s own stctn, thor Michael Brown argu Outlastg the Gay Revolutn: 8 Prcipl for Long Term Cultural Change.

In recent years, much of his wrg has foced on bat about homosexualy, both wh church and the larger of the prcipl scribed the book are aimed at how Christians, and other social nservativ, should behave the culture wars, such as prciple No. In fact, we see more and more believers wakg up and takg a stand bee of the very real attack on our eedoms of relign, speech, and, we are livg a culture of sexual anarchy — I document Outlastg the Gay Revolutn that our acceptance of homosexualy is not bee of creasg tolerance but bee of creasg moraly — and sexual pury will tmp sexual, the war on the genr — the T of LGBT activism — is unstaable, sce male-female distctiv are lerally what mak the world go around.

HOW THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT WON

Simon & Schter, $35 (832p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9411-6Farman (Naked the Promised Land), a scholar of lbian history and lerature, renrs the slow transformatn of culture to a sweepg narrative of the Amerin stggle for gay and lbian civil rights.

She digs ep to media and legislative archiv to nstct a prehensive narrative, begng the 1950s wh the spegoatg of homosexuals unr “vag-lewds” law and the first formulatn of homosexuals as a mory group, and ntug to the current and recent legal fights around the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act (ENDA), hate crime legislatn, and marriage equaly.

In honor of LGBTQ History Month, celebrated every October, here are books that aim to shed light on and clarify signifint historil moments that rmed and shaped the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights movement.

GAY REVOLUTN

A thorough troductn to the history of the gay and lbian civil rights movements, this book chronicl the early stggl of LGBTQ dividuals om the 1950s to prent day g a pilatn of enlighteng terviews wh policians, ary officials and members of the muny.

Wh the help of classified documents and terview wh ary officials, David Johnson argu that Senator Joseph McCarthy was jt as guilty of promotg anti-Communism paranoia as he was spirg polici that nsired homosexualy a threat to natnal secury. In dog so, they lnched the morn lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer movement, creatg a touchstone moment that would fe the next half-century of activist the Supreme Court’s historic legalizatn of same sex marriage 2015, Congrs’s recent approval of the Equaly Act, and the creased acceptance and reprentatn of LGBTQ people popular culture, we have unniably e a long way om the time when ps routely raid gay bars and beg outed nearly guaranteed a person would be labeled a sexual psychopath, blacklisted, ostracized by iends and fay, and legally barred om employment most occupatns, as scribed by John D’E his classic book on the pre-Stonewall era, Sexual Polics, Sexual much ls is known about day-to-day life for LGBTQ people pre-Stonewall, and what took place prr to the rebelln that laid the groundwork for events that would change the urse of morn LGBTQ people have been sexually timate wh others of the same sex sce the begng of time, the social nstctn of a gay inty is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Uned Stat, this has happened mostly wh the last hundred D'E argu his groundbreakg 1993 say, Capalism and Gay Inty, was only through the velopment of palist dtrializatn, the acpanyg expansn of large urban centers, and the transformative effect this procs had on social life that the material ndns for the velopment of LGBTQ inti and muni beme possible.