A series of essays concerning the Gay Liberation Movement, from individuals and groups associated with the movement.
In 1995 two men, Jay Brause and Gene Dugan, sought a marriage license from the Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics. It was denied, and together with their private counsel they sued, seeking to force the state to allow them to marry each ...
Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation
Table 7 lays out the justices on the Bowers Court according to their Baum scores. Baum scores rank the relative ideological stances of the twenty-six justices who sat on the Supreme Court in the years between 1946 and 1985.
The voices and stories captured by Balay--by turns alarming, heroic, funny, and devastating--challenge contemporary understandings of what it means to be queer and shed light on the incredible homophobia and violence faced by many: nearly ...
John T. Sears, Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001), 381. The journal was first published soon after the Stonewall Riots, which began on June 28, ...
Looks at the central importance of the homosexual/heterosexual dichotomy in the Western culture of the last century, in particular by a series of provocative readings of Melville, Wilde, James and Proust.
Out of Our Kitchen Closets: San Francisco Gay Jewish Cooking
In Beyond the Closet , Steven Seidman, a well-known author and leading scholar in sexuality, is the first to chronicle this lifestyle change and to look at the lives of contemporary gays and lesbians to see how their "out" status has ...
In the process, the book conjures the intimate lives of well-known figures such as Samuel Pepys and Laurence Sterne, as well as less familiar ones such as Miss Hobart, a maid of honor at the Restoration court, and Lady Anne Acheson, Swift's ...
"Rob is a young African-American man coming to terms with his sexuality amid the backdrop of the hyper-masculine, homophobic U.S. Army.