A Gay Diary

A Gay Diary
Author: Donald Vining
Publisher:
Total Pages: 483
Release: 1980-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780960227037

A Gay Diary

A Gay Diary
Author: Donald Vining
Publisher: Hard Candy
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging
Author: Douglas C. Kimmel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780231136181

This volume fills a unique gap. Gerontologists seldom focus on special concerns of gay and lesbian older adults, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aging organizations rarely address issues of aging, and the mental health field has demonstrated an ability to marginalize both aging and homosexuality. This book lays out the state of knowledge with respect to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender aging—physical health, sexuality, family ties, victimization, and legal and financial concerns. The references at the end of individual chapters and the bibliographical material at the end of the book provide an invaluable resource. For any gerontologist intrigued by the interplay of historical changes and individual aging, it is difficult to imagine a more powerful example than Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging. Evolution of attitudes toward homosexuality, the emergence of HIV/AIDS, and legal protections beginning to be afforded to same-sex relationships are all part of the changing world that has shaped and been shaped by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who are now old.

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Author: John D'Emilio
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226922456

With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John D'Emilio's new preface and afterword examine the conditions that shaped the book and the growth of gay and lesbian historical literature. "How many students of American political culture know that during the McCarthy era more people lost their jobs for being alleged homosexuals than for being Communists? . . . These facts are part of the heretofore obscure history of homosexuality in America—a history that John D'Emilio thoroughly documents in this important book."—George DeStefano, Nation "John D'Emilio provides homosexual political struggles with something that every movement requires—a sympathetic history rendered in a dispassionate voice."—New York Times Book Review "A milestone in the history of the American gay movement."—Rudy Kikel, Boston Globe