Frontiers | Book Review: The Gay Revolutn: The Story of the Stggle

Contents:

• THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
• THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• BOOK REVIEW: THE GAY REVOLUTN: THE STORY OF THE STGGLE
• GAY’S REGIMENT (1776)
• Y, THE LEAR OF THE REVOLUTN IS GAY AND THE STATE LOV : HERE’S WHY
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS

THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY

Durg von Stben’s lifetime, the ncept of gay marriage, gay pri or g out was unthkable and there was no language or open culture of homosexualy.

The small group of gay men who created the Mattache Society 1951 drew on the Italian tradn of street edy which the jter-tthteller characters, the mattaci, revealed the flaws of pompo characters reprentg societal norms. But most stat ignored the remendatn, and ntued to classify nsensual gay sex as a felony on par wh sexual asslt--sometim wh prison sentenc of up to 20 years. Before 1969, there was a real disnnect between polil progrs, which was most often ma by straight alli, and lbian and gay anizg, which was most often swept unr the g.

When the NYPD raid a gay bar Greenwich Village and started arrtg employe and drag performers, they got more than they bargaed for--a crowd of some 2, 000 lbian, gay, and transgenr supporters of the bar took on the police, forcg them to the club.

THE AMERIN GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

They announced that they would be removg homosexualy om the next prtg of the DSM-II, and spoke out favor of anti-discrimatn laws that would protect lbian and gay Amerins. Democratic lears had everythg to ga and ltle to lose by supportg gay rights, so they serted a new plank the party platform: "All groups mt be protected om discrimatn based on race, lor, relign, natnal orig, language, age, sex or sexual orientatn. Ernment body to do so--offerg lbian and gay cy and school district employe the same partnership benefs that heterosexual upl take for granted.

Even Print Clton got on the act, signg the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act 1996 to prevent any future hypothetil same-sex married upl om receivg feral benefs.

Although Print Clton is often bt remembered the LGBT activism muny for his support of a ban on lbians and gay men the ary and his cisn to sign the Defense of Marriage Act, he also had a posive ntributn to offer.

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

We n state why he might be spected of beg gay, but aga, to suggt that he might be out as you know, as blatant has to be he has to be uched properly.

In other words, we don't have enough of a enough of an accurate termology to e or enough of a shared termology for all of as a group to get together, or for strangers to e together ont of a monument and jt hear a term like he's a gay general.

GAY’S REGIMENT (1776)

In other words, von Stben is beg lled the "gay general, " part to to talk about why queer people today should have rights and should be able to serve the army.

Y, THE LEAR OF THE REVOLUTN IS GAY AND THE STATE LOV : HERE’S WHY

So that if a reference was ma to the fact that others have referred to him as the "gay general, " other words, that's another way of dog then.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

And so, you know, sometim, rather than focg on you the more physil aspects of the particular relatnships, whether be hetero or whether be heterosexual or homosexual, the general foc should be stead on how they exprs their affectn towards one another and love for one another. Given that the magnate of transformatn that Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals have been credible, is worthwhile to lve eply to the events. 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.

To brg this thoroughly wrten publitn, Farman sured the database of librari, journals, ernmental agenci, lbian and gay groups, and arrt reports, as well as nsultg over 100 mpaigners. In the “tersectnaly” crisis, a term ed by inty tellectuals, lbians were ught between two mps—the mascule homosexual muny and the anti-lbian femist mpaign (p.

GAY RIGHTS

333–334)—yet there is also an upliftg narrative highlightg the achievements of ls well-regnized dividuals, be they heterosexual or homosexual (chapter 7 & chapter 18–20).

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. Bee of gay monstratns, many of which were iated by LGBTQ Ain-Amerins and therefore were closely associated wh the civil rights movement, police btaly creased signifintly the 1970s (Kane, 2013; Stone, 2016).

Furthermore, no narrative is a flawls pictn of the velopment of a social jtice mpaign, and the immense clary offered by The Gay Revolutn outweighs the shortgs. 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. The 20th century saw a wave of anized activism to secure civil rights and eedoms for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people.