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Law and the Gay Rights Story
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and lesbians, but what caused this enormous sea change?
In his gripping new book, Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them. Frank’s accessible style brings complex legal issues down to earth but, as a former litigator, never loses sight of the law’s human dimension and the context of the events occurring outside the courtroom.
Chronicling the past half-century of gay and lesbian history, Law and the Gay Rights Story offers a unique perspective on familiar events like the Stonewall Riots, the AIDS crisis, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Frank pays special attention to the constitutional issues surrounding same-sex marriage and closely analyzes the two recent Supreme Court cases addressing the issue. While a strong advocate for gay rights, Frank also examines critiques of the movement, including some coming from the gay community itself. Comprehensive in coverage, the book explains the legal and constitutional issues involved in each of the major goals of the gay rights movement: a safe and healthy school environment, workplace equality, an end to anti-gay violence, relationship recognition, and full integration into all the institutions of the larger society, including marriage and military service. Drawing from extensive archival research and from decades of experience as a practicing litigator, Frank not only provides a vivid history, but also shows where the battle for gay rights might go from here.
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Historical dictionary of the lesbian and gay liberation movements
Not so long ago hardly anything was said of the Lesbian Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement, indeed, the terms gay and lesbian were not even used if some other expression could be found. Today, by contrast, hardly a day passes when something important does not occur, and is carried by the major media and disseminated on more personal levels through blogs and the social media. If anything, there is perhaps too much “news” and not enough “information.” Obviously, a book like this cannot keep up with the news, but it can do something equally important when it comes to information, by reminding us of the past and what has been going and just how fast events are moving. The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements covers the history of this movement through a cross-referenced dictionary with over 1000 entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions. Including a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, this book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone interested in learning more about the struggle for equality.
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The End of Straight Supremacy
Rooted in the politics and theories of early gay liberation and radical feminism, Shannon Gilreath's The End of Straight Supremacy presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination. Beginning with a critique of formal equality law, centering on the 'like-straight' demands of liberal equality theory as highlighted in Lawrence v. Texas, Gilreath moves to criticize the gay movement itself, challenging the assimilation politics behind the movement's blithe acceptance of discrimination in the guise of free speech and pornography in the name of sexual liberation, as well as same-sex marriage and transsexuality as tools of straight hegemony. Ultimately, Gilreath rejects both the liberal demand for gay erasure in exchange for meager legal progress and the gay establishment agenda. In The End of Straight Supremacy, Gilreath calls gays and their allies to the difficult task of rethinking what liberation and equality really mean.
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Pink Triangle Legacies
Pink Triangle Legacies traces
the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration
camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread,
recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and
community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the
Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer
survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement,
compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this
context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink
triangle-a reminder of Germany's fascist past-as the visual marker
of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as
second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their
identity openly.
The reclamation of the pink triangle occurred first in West
Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this
chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on
opposite sides of the Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto
new contexts, they connected two national communities and helped
form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity,
that transcended national borders.
Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous
consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of
hidden histories into the mainstream understanding of the past can
contribute to a more inclusive experience of belonging in the
present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and
remembering injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized
community seeks a history that liberates them from the confines of
silence, they must often write it themselves.
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Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States
This book examines the fluctuating place of sexuality in LGBTQ mobilization in the US. It contends that, while politically successful, the US LGBTQ movement has a record of neglecting a key aspect of LGBTQ militancy-sexuality-and analyses grassroots efforts at re-politicizing sexuality and re-sexualizing LGBTQ politics.
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Before AIDS
The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of
sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so-an unknown virus
without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical
professionals are unprepared and sometimes unwilling to care for
the sick, and a national health bureaucracy is slow to invest
resources in finding a cure. Yet this widely accepted narrative,
while accurate, creates the impression that the gay community
lacked any capacity to address AIDS. In fact, as Katie Batza
demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a
well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities
when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first
responders to the disease. Before AIDS explores this
heretofore unrecognized story, chronicling the development of a
national gay health network by highlighting the origins of
longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los
Angeles, placing them in a larger political context, and following
them into the first five years of the AIDS crisis.
Like many other minority communities in the 1970s, gay men faced
public health challenges that resulted as much from their political
marginalization and social stigmatization as from any disease. Gay
men mistrusted mainstream health institutions, fearing outing,
ostracism, misdiagnosis, and the possibility that their sexuality
itself would be treated as a medical condition. In response to
these problems, a colorful cast of doctors and activists built a
largely self-sufficient gay medical system that challenged,
collaborated with, and educated mainstream health practitioners.
Taking inspiration from rhetoric employed by the Black Panther,
feminist, and anti-urban renewal movements, and putting government
funding to new and often unintended uses, gay health activists of
the 1970s changed the medical and political understandings of
sexuality and health to reflect the new realities of their own
sexual revolution.
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The A to Z of the lesbian liberation movement
The Lesbian Liberation Movement is both a movement that encompasses liberating a sexual practice from stigmatization and a political movement challenging the dual oppression of women by the patriarchy's assumption of male supremacy and heterosexuality. Over the years, much has been written on homosexuality and the Gay Liberation Movement, yet much of the focus has been on male homosexuals, especially male homosexual activity and the politics that activity raises. The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage is a comprehensive overview and resource guide for one of the most invisible social political movements: the Lesbian Liberation Movement. This book helps to make the still-active movement visible—the history, successes, setbacks, controversies, and issues. This book is a good resource for those studying this social political movement, containing a chronology, contextual overview, dictionary entries that cover persons, laws, terminology, issues, and countries, and an extensive bibliography of primary resources and current work.
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Before Lawrence v. Texas
In 2003 the US Supreme Court overturned anti-sodomy laws across the country, ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that the Constitution protects private consensual sex between adults. To some, the decision seemed to come like lightning from above, altering the landscape of America’s sexual politics all at once. In actuality, many years of work and organizing led up to the legal case, and the landmark ruling might never have happened were it not for the passionate struggle of Texans who rejected their state’s discriminatory laws.Before Lawrence v. Texas tells the story of the long, troubled, and ultimately hopeful road to constitutional change. Wesley G. Phelps describes the achievements, setbacks, and unlikely alliances along the way. Over the course of decades, and at great risk to themselves, gay and lesbian Texans and their supporters launched political campaigns and legal challenges, laying the groundwork for Lawrence. Phelps shares the personal experiences of the people and couples who contributed to the legal strategy that ultimately overturned the state’s discriminatory law. Even when their individual court cases were unsuccessful, justice seekers and activists collectively influenced public opinion by insisting that their voices be heard. Nine Supreme Court justices ruled, but it was grassroots politics that vindicated the ideal of equality under the law.
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