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The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Hardcover)
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The Deviant's War - The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Hardcover)
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS'
CHOICE From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, 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.
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