Gay Artists in Modern American Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gay Artists in Modern American Culture write by Michael S. Sherry. This book was released on 2007-09-10. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly "American" on the stage and screen. Even though few gay artists were "out," their sexuality caused significant anxiety during a time of rampant antihomosexual attitudes. Michael Sherry offers a sophisticated analysis of the tension between the nation's simultaneous dependence on and fear of the cultural influence of gay artists. Sherry places conspiracy theories about the "homintern" (homosexual international) taking control and debasing American culture within the paranoia of the time that included anticommunism, anti-Semitism, and racism. Gay artists, he argues, helped shape a lyrical, often nationalist version of American modernism that served the nation's ambitions to create a cultural empire and win the Cold War. Their success made them valuable to the country's cultural empire but also exposed them to rising antigay sentiment voiced even at the highest levels of power (for example, by President Richard Nixon). Only late in the twentieth century, Sherry concludes, did suspicion slowly give way to an uneasy accommodation of gay artists' place in American life.
Place at the Table
Place at the Table - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Place at the Table write by Bruce Bawer. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Place at the Table available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bruce Bawer exposes the heated controversy over gay rights and presents a passionate plea for the recognition of common values, "a place at the table" for everyone.
American Gay
American Gay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Gay write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 1996-06-15. American Gay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on two decades of research into gay life in North America, Stephen O. Murray examines the emergence of gay and lesbian social life, the creation of lisbigay communities, and the political and social forces of resistance that have mobilized and nurtured a group identity. Murray also considers the extent to which there is a single "modern" homosexuality, the enormous range of gay behaviors, and more.
Gay America
Gay America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gay America write by Linas Alsenas. This book was released on 2008-11. Gay America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Milestones of gay and lesbian life in the United States are brought together in the first-ever nonfiction book on the topic published specifically for teens. Profusely illustrated with period photographs, first-person accounts offer insight as each chapter identifies an important era. From the Gay '20s to the Kinsey study, from the McCarthy witch hunts to the Beat generation, from Stonewall to disco, and from AIDS to gay marriage and families, this overview gives a balanced look at how queer men and women have lived, worked, played--and fought to overcome prejudice and discrimination--for the past 125 years.--From publisher description.
American Gay
American Gay - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Gay write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 1996-06-15. American Gay available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging prevailing assumptions about gay history and society, Murray questions conventional wisdom about the importance of World War II and the Stonewall riots for conceiving and challenging the notion of a shared oppression. He reviews gay complicity in the repathologizing of homosexuality during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Discussing recent demands for inclusion in the "straight" institutions of marriage and the U.S. military, he concludes that these are new forms of resistance, not attempts to assimilate. Finally, Murray examines racial and ethnic differences in self-representation and identification.
