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Victory - The Triumphant Gay Revolution (Paperback)
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Victory - The Triumphant Gay Revolution (Paperback)
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When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted - most notably at a
bar called Stonewall in Greenwich Village - in the summer of 1969,
most religious traditions condemned homosexuality; psychiatric
experts labeled people who were attracted to others of the same sex
"crazy"; and forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the
same gender. Four decades later, in June 2011, New York legalized
gay marriage - the most populous state in the country to do so thus
far. The armed services stopped enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
ending a law that had long discriminated against gay and lesbian
members of the military. Successful social movements are always
extraordinary, but these advances were something of a miracle.
Political columnist Linda Hirshman recounts the long roads that led
to these victories, viewing the gay rights movement within the
tradition of American freedom as the third great modern
social-justice movement, alongside the civil rights movement and
the women's rights movement. Drawing on an abundance of published
and archival material, and hundreds of in-depth interviews,
Hirshman shows, in this astute political analysis, how the fight
for gay rights has changed the American landscape for all citizens
- blurring rigid gender lines, altering the shared culture, and
broadening our definitions of family. From the Communist
cross-dresser Harry Hay in 1948 to New York's visionary senator
Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010, the story includes dozens of brilliant,
idiosyncratic characters. Written in vivid prose, at once emotional
and erudite, Victory is an utterly vibrant work of reportage and
eyewitness accounts, revealing how, in a matter of decades, while
facing every social adversary-church, state, and medical
establishment - a focused group of activists forged a classic
campaign for cultural change that will serve as a model for all
future political movements.
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