Jam Kirchick reunts the past and prent of gay rights "Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton," cludg DC's Stonewall equivalent.
Contents:
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
- JAM KIRCHICK EXPLOR DC’S GAY HISTORY AN AMB NEW BOOK
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
A new book exam the unknown or barely known liv of gay people workg and livg our natn’s pal, a cy known for s mix of power and secrets. “Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton, " by Jam Kirchick, is a 654-page tome that took years of rearch and an exhstive vtigatn to printial archiv, historil terviews and once-classified ernment rerds.
SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
“I realized that all the stori I was readg, and the personali and phenomena, whether was McCarthyism or the Reagans, FDR or JFK, that there were the gay stori lurkg the background, ” Kirchick said.
JAM KIRCHICK EXPLOR DC’S GAY HISTORY AN AMB NEW BOOK
Those stori lurked the background out of necsy: The st of g out as gay — or, more likely, beg outed agast one’s will — was enormo profsnally and socially. Even beg associated wh a spected homosexual uld e the untry’s most powerful men to quiver.