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"This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement at the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and until now untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America's...

"The year was 1994. It was the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and, as luck would have it, the year in which a new magazine called The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review was publishing its first issue. The fact that The G&LR's first year coincided with Stonewall's 25th forever joined the magazine's history with the founding event of the modern LGBT movement. This book commemorates The G&LR's 25th birthday with a collection of relevant articles selected...

Forty years after Stonewall, a look at the origins and influences of the Gay Liberation movement.

"Acclaimed historian George Chauncey offers a sweeping history of lesbians and gay men in the last century to explain what's at stake in the current controversy over gay marriage. Combining scholarly depth with novelistic flair, he provides a riveting analysis of the growing polarization of American society over gay rights and of the changes to gay life and marriage itself that propelled the marriage issue to the fore."--Back cover.

As gay culture is being increasingly assimilated into straight culture, is it losing its subversive edge, its very reason for being? "A spirited journey through gay life that delights and enlightens".--"San Francisco Chronicle."

A history of the major battles and policy initiatives that have helped form the modern gay and lesbian movement Creating Change tells the story behind some of the most bitterly contested and controversial public events and public policy battles in the past generation and possibly in American history. The book traces the work and gauges the impact of the gay and lesbian movement since the Stonewall Inn riots. An illustration of the way in which the...

What's it like to be queer in America? Ask Michelangelo Signorile. Called a "sissy" and a "faggot" while growing up in the working-class Italian-Catholic neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Staten Island, he is one of the new breed of lesbians and gay men who decided to bash back. Signorile's signature upper-case invective expressed the anger of a generation in his columns in OutWeek magazine. Queer in America is his story - and the story of a new gay generation...