The Gay Revolution
The Story of the Struggle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David K Johnson (0000-0003-3670-8054, corresponding author), Johnson David K (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1017-1018 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaw513 |
| OpenAlex | W2590290444 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 3 |
Lillian Faderman set the ambitious goal of chronicling the gay rights movement from its humble origins behind closed doors in post–World War II California to the major legal victories of the Obama administration concerning gay military personnel and marriage equality. She succeeds admirably in bringing to life the vast number of colorful and diverse characters in this struggle. Even for those who thought they knew these stories, her retelling captures overlooked details. Characters such as Harry Hay, William Dale Jennings, and Marilyn Rieger of the Mattachine Society, a gay rights organization founded in 1950, seem new. Her descriptions of the Gay Activists Alliance's “zaps” (raucous public demonstrations designed to embarrass public figures)—especially the frequent zaps of New York City mayor John Lindsay—are vivid. And the story of Sally Duplaix, who was forced to undergo electroshock therapy because of her defiant insistence on a lesbian identity, is inspiring. Comparisons will be made between Faderman's work and the earlier telling of the story, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (1999). The Gay Revolution not only offers an update, moving the story forward to cover gay marriage, but also goes back in time to capture the years before the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn and, I hope, to bury forever the myth that the gay rights movement began at that bar in Greenwich Village.
Aesthetics · Alliance · Art · Greenwich · Homosexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Political science · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Race, History, and American Society
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Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students in Music Education Programs Across Texas
The Gay Teachers Association of NYC and LGB Students
Coming-out – und dann …?!“
Sexuelle und geschlechtliche Diversität aus salutogenetischer Perspektive
Queeres Leben in Bayern
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Contested intersections
A Definitive but Unsatisfying Answer”
Two, four, six, eight…why we want to participate
Queer Isolation or Queering Isolation? Reflecting upon the Ramifications of Covid-19 on the Future of Queer Leisure Spaces
National security discourse, excluding operation mechanisms, and resistance of homosexual federal employees during the Lavender Scare
Años De Orgullo. Un Repaso Escrito Y Visual Por La Historia Del Movimiento Lgtbiq+ en España
Promiscuity of the past
Placing intersectional inequalities in health
Queering Zion
From Lavender Menace to Queer Nation
Ambivalently post-lesbian
Lesbian vitality
The Columbus model
Can Democracy Be Queer
Understanding the Litigation Priorities of Legal Impact Organizations
Changing Times, Shifting Attitudes
Para Cecilia
Celebrating Stonewall at 50
How Older White Gay Men and Lesbians Leverage Advantages to Navigate Healthcare
The Costs of Pride
Critical Dogmatism
Power in a Union
Coming out to Vote
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |