The Deviant's War - 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 The Deviant's War write by Eric Cervini. This book was released on 2020-06-02. The Deviant's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Washington Post's Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, and the Creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer (coming June 2022 to Discovery+), the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.
Gay Is Good
Gay Is Good - 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 Is Good write by Michael G. Long. This book was released on 2014-11-26. Gay Is Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contrary to popular notions, today’s LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925–2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace homosexuality as moral and healthy, publicly denounced the federal government for excluding homosexuals from federal employment, openly fought the military’s ban against gay men and women, debated psychiatrists who depicted homosexuality as a mental disorder, identified test cases to advance civil liberties through the federal courts, acted as counsel to countless homosexuals suffering state-sanctioned discrimination, and organized marches for gay rights at the White House and other public institutions. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny’s historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today’s politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny’s inimitable voice—a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters. This volume collects approximately 150 letters from 1958 to 1975, a critical period in Kameny’s life during which he evolved from a victim of the law to a vocal opponent of the law, to the voice of the law itself. Long situates these letters in context, giving historical and biographical data about the subjects and events involved. Gay Is Good pays tribute to an advocate whose tireless efforts created a massive shift in social attitudes and practices, leading the way toward equality for the LGBT community.
The Deviant Prison
The Deviant Prison - 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 The Deviant Prison write by Ashley T. Rubin. This book was released on 2021-02-04. The Deviant Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.
The Gay Revolution
The Gay Revolution - 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 The Gay Revolution write by Lillian Faderman. This book was released on 2016-09-27. The Gay Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies
Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies - 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 Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies write by Chris Straayer. This book was released on 1996. Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On homosexuality in cinema.
