Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld
Author: Ralf Dose
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 158367439X

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 OCo1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, HirschfeldOCOs legacy resonates throughout he twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his motto OC Through Science Toward Justice, OCO Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in Germany to defend the rights of homosexuals and develop a scientific framework or sexual equality. He was also an early champion of womenOCOs rights, campaigning in the early 1900s for the decriminalization of abortion and the right of female teachers and civil servants to marry and have children. By 1933 HirschfeldOCOs commitment to sexual liberation made him a target for the Nazis, and they ransacked his Institute for Sexual Research and publicly burned his books. a This biography, first published to acclaim in Germany, follows Hirschfeld from his birth in Poland to the heights of his career during the Weimar Republic and the rise of German fascism. Ralf Dose illuminates HirschfeldOCOs ground-breaking role in the gay liberation movement and explains ome of his major theoretical concepts, which continue to influence our"

The Gay Liberation Movement

The Gay Liberation Movement
Author: Sean Heather K. McGraw
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508183112

This book explains the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement, from its early years prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969 and its continuation into the 1970s. Readers will learn about the Stonewall riots, the Compton's cafeteria riot, the Gay Liberation Front, the Lavender Menace, and more. This book also discusses the contributions of important people such as Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, and many others. The difficulties and legacies of that era will become clear to students who may know only the outline of the early history of the movement.

Come Together

Come Together
Author: Aubrey Walter
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788732391

On the origins of European queer politics Come Together tells the incredible story of the emerging radicalism of the Gay Liberation Front, providing a vivid history of the movement, as well as the new ideas and practices it gave rise to across the United Kingdom. Before marriage equality or military service, Come Together reminds us of paths forged but not taken by queer politics in its earliest stages.

The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement

The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement
Author: Margaret Cruikshank
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136644261

Gay and lesbian liberation as a sexual freedom movement, as a political movement, and as a movement of ideas - historical roots, legal issues and links with other movements. The author emphasises the role of women.

Stand by Me

Stand by Me
Author: Jim Downs
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 046509855X

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph -- both political and sexual -- before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called "gay lifestyle". In Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together -- as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues -- to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life. As Downs shows, gay people found one another in the Metropolitan Community Church, a nationwide gay religious group; in the pages of the Body Politic, a newspaper that encouraged its readers to think of their sexuality as a political identity; at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay literary life in New York City; and at theaters putting on "Gay American History," a play that brought to the surface the enduring problem of gay oppression. These and many other achievements would be largely forgotten after the arrival in the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed critics to claim that sex was the defining feature of gay liberation. This reductive narrative set back the cause of gay rights and has shaped the identities of gay people for decades. An essential act of historical recovery, Stand by Me shines a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we think about gay life in America from the 1970s into the present day.

The Gay Rights Movement

The Gay Rights Movement
Author: Eric Braun
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541523342

Intro: a movement erupts -- Birth of the gay rights movement -- Gaining momentum and the AIDS challenge: 1970s-80s -- Making progress: the 1990s through 2010s -- Moving forward

After Homosexual

After Homosexual
Author: Carolyn D'Cruz
Publisher: Apollo Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781742583457

"Forty years after the publication of Dennis Altman's classic, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, this collection of memoir, political reflection and creative non-fiction brings together an exemplary line up of writers, spanning generations that have both shaped and inherited the legacy of gay liberation and its intersections with other social movements."--Page 4 of cover.

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York
Author: Stephan Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-11-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135905681

Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay Youth (GY), Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and the Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School (GWHS) -- from the advent of gay liberation in NYC in 1969 to just after its dissolution and the rise of identity politics by 1975. Cohen examines how gay liberation -- with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance -- shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change.

Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Has the Gay Movement Failed?
Author: Martin Duberman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520970845

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure." —Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the cost—the sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault lines both within and beyond the movements of the past and today, this critical book is also hopeful: Duberman urges us to learn from this history to fight for a truly inclusive and expansive society.

The Gay Revolution

The Gay Revolution
Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1451694121

A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.