The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian MovementThe past decade has seen a wealth of changes in the gay and lesbian movement and a remarkable growth in gay and lesbian studies. In response to this heightened activity Barry D. Adam has updated his 1987 study of the movement to offer a critical reflection on strategies and objectives that have been developed for the protection and welfare of those who love others of their own sex. This revised volume addresses the movement's recovery of momentum in the wake of New Right campaigns and its gains in human rights and domestic partners' legislation in several countries; the impact of AIDS on movement issues and strategies and the renewal of militant tactics through AIDS activism and Queer Nation; internal debates that continually shift the meanings composing homosexual, gay, lesbian, and queer identities and cultures; the proliferation of new movement groups in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa; and new developments in historical scholarship that are enriching our understanding of same-sex bonding in the past. Adam delineates the formation of gay and lesbian movements as truly a world phenomenon, exploring their histories in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and countries for which very little information about the activities of gay men and lesbians has been made available. In this global picture of the mobilization of homosexuals Adam identifies the critical factors that have given personal and historical subjectivity to desire, that have shaped the faces and territories of homosexual people, and that have generated homophobia and heterosexism. Treating the sociological aspects of the rise of the gay and lesbian movement, Adamalso looks at "new social movements" theory in relation to the gay and lesbian movement and cultural nationalism - whether in the form of cultural feminism or queer nationalism - which he considers an important, perhaps inevitable, moment in the empowerment of inferiorized people. |
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... equal opportunity and wondered why they should be denied full participation in civil society . Two centuries ago , then , the stage was set , the actors assembled , and much of the script worked out for the dramas of the modern era ...
... equal opportunity and wondered why they should be denied full participation in civil society . Two centuries ago , then , the stage was set , the actors assembled , and much of the script worked out for the dramas of the modern era ...
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... equal rights laws across the United States . Emboldened by an increasingly reactionary climate , police and street violence against gay people escalated , television programs appeared resurrecting old stereotypes , and many public ...
... equal rights laws across the United States . Emboldened by an increasingly reactionary climate , police and street violence against gay people escalated , television programs appeared resurrecting old stereotypes , and many public ...
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... equal rights for les- bians and gay men or even abolished existing protections . New Right coalitions in the United States have continued to generate homopho- bic panics in several locations . Voters in Houston repealed a civil rights ...
... equal rights for les- bians and gay men or even abolished existing protections . New Right coalitions in the United States have continued to generate homopho- bic panics in several locations . Voters in Houston repealed a civil rights ...
Contents
Early Movements and Aspirations | 19 |
The Holocaust | 49 |
Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism | 81 |
Copyright | |
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