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THE PATH TO GAY RIGHTS: HOW ACTIVISM AND COMG OUT CHANGED PUBLIC OPN
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In s sophomore slump, The Path seems to have fotten why wanted to believe the first one benefed om the obligatn of troducg Meyerism and s believers, based on pounds Pe, San Diego, and upstate New York. The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Comg Out Changed Public OpnAn novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rightsThe Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved s most unexpected victory―transformg gay people om a spised group of social viants to a mory worthy of rights and protectns the ey of most Amerins.
The rult was an crease the number of LGBTQ people who me out and lived their liv openly, and wh creased ntact wh gay people, public attus began to warm and change. GenrLGBTHistoryNonfictn352 pag, HardverPublished June 5, 2018About the thorRatgs & ReviewsFriends & Followg Communy ReviewsDisplayg 1 - 2 of 2 reviews184 reviewsShelved as 'dnf'Febary 16, 2022i’m sorry but i jt n’t waste my ltle time on this earth readg bad non fictn books about gay rights history that ll the entire lgbtq+ muny ‘gays and lbians’.
THE PATH TO GAY RIGHTS
An novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved s most unexpected victory—transformg gay people om a spised group of social viants to a mory worthy of rights and protectns the ey of most Amerins. The book weav together a narrative of LGBTQ history wh new fdgs om the field of polil psychology to provi an unrstandg of how social movements affect mass attus the Uned Stat and globally. Usg data gog back to the 1970s, the book argu that the current unrstandg of how social movements change mass opn—through sympathetic media verage and endorsements om polil lears—nnot provi an aquate explanatn for the phenomenal succs of the LGBTQ movement at changg the public’s views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argu that the LGBTQ muny’s rponse to the AIDS crisis was a turng pot for public support of gay rights. ACT-UP and related AIDS anizatns strategilly targeted polil and media lears, normalizg news verage of LGBTQ issu and AIDS and signaled to LGBTQ people across the Uned Stat that their liv were valued. The rult was an crease the number of LGBTQ people who me out and lived their liv openly, and wh creased ntact wh gay people, public attus began to warm and change. Garretson go beyond the story of LGBTQ rights to velop an evince-based argument for how social movements n alter mass opn on any ntent topic. * the path gay *
It mak a signifint ntributn to the polil science lerature on LGBT studi by synthizg and advancg the empiril arguments on the shift opn on gay rights jt a few generatns. Support for gay rights has followed a different trajectory than support for any other mory groups rights, buildg more slowly but acceleratg more The Path to Gay Rights, Garretson has pellgly told the story that explas whya remarkable piece of Huddy, Co-Edor of The Oxford Handbook of Polil Psychology, Send Edn:The Path to Gay Rights exam why and how public support for gays and lbians creased markedly recent s.
Garretson explor the origs of this unually rapid shift public opn, tracg back to Amerins creased ntact wh gay and lbian dividuals both directly and virtually through TV book provis a rich and layered acunt of events, activism, tert group activy, and polil mpaigns amplified by reful analysis of survey data, onle search, and Congrsnal vot. It mak a signifint ntributn to the polil science lerature on LGBT studi by synthizg and advancg the empiril arguments on the shift opn on gay rights jt a few fe study exam how the change public opn took place over the years while lookg at the ultimate of social change important addn to the LGBTQ book's narrative is hopeful's a story of how untls personal teractns and dividual chang of heart, not ele opn or legal mandat, drove one of the most remarkable attudal shifts morn history. While laws agast sodomy, seldom enforced, were mon om the lonial perd, the velopment of the medil and mental health profsns the late 1800s and early 1900s provid a new, “ratnal” basis for the existence of anti-homosexualy statut.
8 Acrdg to Canaday, “Progrsive era reformers ed the word homosexualy somewhat terchangeably wh ‘pervert’, ‘generate’, ‘perast’, and ‘sodome’ their mpaigns to improve public health. As new medil notns of the homosexual as a distct type of person started to take root the public md, they beme nnected to prev notns of homosexualy as sful and immoral.
An novative, data-driven explanatn of how public opn shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and w... * the path gay *
Although many the medil profsn believed homosexuals were ill and th need of treatment, not sners need of punishment, the majory of the public me to believe that a whole class of dividuals who were herently generate or immoral existed. Over the urse of the first half of the twentieth century, a progrsively more tense fashn, homosexuals beme more and more exclud om ernment programs orr to make sure that those benefg om the programs were not generat.
Homosexuals were banned om legal immigratn for havg “immoral purpos, ” screened om the armed servic durg the end of World War I and all of World War II for reasons of beg unf (though many lied orr to enlist), ejected om New Deal relief programs for fear that imprsnable others would learn “perversn, ” and later nied earned benefs unr the G. In effect, then, the two perceived threats, a munist threat to the natn and a homosexual threat to the health of the tradnal fay, started to blend together durg this perd. That did not stop other high-rankg admistratn officials om attemptg a plete purge of homosexuals om the civil service orr to fight back agast accatns om polil opponents of “subversiv” beg employed by the feral ernment.
Republins attempted to ga the upper hand after accg the Democrats of beg lax on homosexualy, when Print Eisenhower issued executive orr 10450 upon takg office 1953. While the populatn of the untry had reloted to ci durg the dtrial revolutn of the late 1800s, the early twentieth century, immigratn ed the natn’s urban areas to swell size, and as urban populatn nsy creased, terpersonal ntact between homosexuals occurred more equently.
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20 However, the rercg notns of the time, that homosexuals were eher immoral, sick, or threats, strongly enuraged most to keep their heads down and their mouths closed when talkg to those om outsi the nascent muni. Evelyn Hooker (mentned chapter 1), not only did her teractns wh gay men lead her to personally doubt the validy of the scientific nsens of the day, but her gay iends actively soliced her to challenge that nsens scientifilly. “A readg of the so-lled thori on the matter [of homosexualy as illns] shows an appallg cince of loose reasong, or poor rearch, of supposedly generally applible nclns beg rived om an examatn of non-reprentative sampl, of nclns beg rporated to ial assumptns, and vise-versa, wh the nsequent circular reasong.
New forms of blogil rearch, which were que distct om the medil and psychiatric rearch on the “disease” of homosexualy, also started to unrme the domant jtifitn of laws crimalizg same-sex relatns, that homosexualy was the mark of illns. Although the study had severe methodologil flaws, and morn surveys have placed the percentage intifyg as gay or lbian closer to 3–5 percent, 26 that number beme greatly signifint to the homosexual muny the Uned Stat. Even as was ed by opponents of lbians and gays to jtify the magnu of the “homosexual menace, ” signified to those who would form the first endurg lbian and gay anizatns that they had a potentially large group of patrts.