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Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement
provides an accessible overview of an important and
transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key
individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major
successes and failures, and the movement's lasting effects and
unfinished work. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and
political change in the second half of the twentieth century, Marc
Stein examines the changing agendas, beliefs, strategies, and
vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions,
campaigns, ideologies, and organizations. From the homophile
activism of the 1950s and 1960s through the rise of gay liberation
and lesbian feminism in the 1970s to the multicultural and AIDS
activist movements of the 1980s, this book provides a strong
foundation for understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
and queer politics today. This new edition reflects the substantial
changes in the field since the book's original publication eleven
years ago. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement will be valued
by everyone interested in LGBTQ struggles, the politics of movement
activism, and the history of social justice in the United States.
Now in its second edition, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement
provides an accessible overview of an important and
transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key
individuals and events, influential groups and organizations, major
successes and failures, and the movement's lasting effects and
unfinished work. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and
political change in the second half of the twentieth century, Marc
Stein examines the changing agendas, beliefs, strategies, and
vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions,
campaigns, ideologies, and organizations. From the homophile
activism of the 1950s and 1960s through the rise of gay liberation
and lesbian feminism in the 1970s to the multicultural and AIDS
activist movements of the 1980s, this book provides a strong
foundation for understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender,
and queer politics today. This new edition reflects the substantial
changes in the field since the book's original publication eleven
years ago. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement will be valued
by everyone interested in LGBTQ struggles, the politics of movement
activism, and the history of social justice in the United States.
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important
moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced,
recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The
New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing
practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and
transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in
the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of
responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing
period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a
riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community,
followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein
presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall.
Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and
LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions,
political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and
photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal
moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not
construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich
Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple
truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the
conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick
(or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to
take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has
stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance,
courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives
of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in
the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the
mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed
to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed
to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots
provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.
Marc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for
at least two reasons: it centers on a city that is not generally
associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows
that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion.
In this lively and well received book, Marc Stein brings to life
the neighborhood bars and clubs where people gathered and the
political issues that rallied the community. He reminds us that
Philadelphians were leaders in the national gay and lesbian
movement and, in doing so, suggests that New York and San Francisco
have for too long obscured the contributions of other cities to gay
culture.
Over the course of the last half century, queer history has
developed as a collaborative project involving academic
researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected
by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for
many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic
activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher
education, which in turn helped queer historians become more
influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of
essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc
Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer
historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the
development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From
the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the
1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and
the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein
introduces readers to key themes in queer public history. A
manifesto for renewed partnerships between academic and
community-based historians, strengthened linkages between queer
public history and LGBT scholarly activism, and increased public
support for historical research on gender and sexuality, this
anthology reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future
of queer public history.
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and
1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth
control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold,
Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly
conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era
in which the Court recognised special marital, reproductive, and
heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration
statute that classified homosexuals as ""psychopathic
personalities."" Stein shows how a diverse set of influential
journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language
about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about
sexual freedom and equality.
Over the course of the last half century, queer history has
developed as a collaborative project involving academic
researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected
by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for
many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic
activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher
education, which in turn helped queer historians become more
influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of
essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc
Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer
historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the
development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From
the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the
1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and
the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein
introduces readers to key themes in queer public history. A
manifesto for renewed partnerships between academic and
community-based historians, strengthened linkages between queer
public history and LGBT scholarly activism, and increased public
support for historical research on gender and sexuality, this
anthology reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future
of queer public history.
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important
moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced,
recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The
New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing
practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and
transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in
the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of
responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing
period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a
riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community,
followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein
presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall.
Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and
LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions,
political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and
photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal
moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not
construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich
Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple
truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the
conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick
(or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to
take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has
stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance,
courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives
of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in
the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the
mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed
to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed
to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots
provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.
In this pathbreaking history, Marc Stein takes an in-depth look at
Philadelphia from the 1940s to the 1970s. What he finds is a city
of vibrant gay and lesbian households, neighborhoods, commercial
establishments, public cultures, and political groups. In doing so,
Stein shatters the myth that lesbian and gay history began with the
1969 Stonewall riots in New York City and challenges the notion
that only New York and San Francisco featured major lesbian and gay
communities in the pre-Stonewall era.
Stein takes us on a tour through Philadelphia's bars, restaurants,
bookstores, bathhouses, movie theaters, parks, and parades where
lesbian and gay cultures thrived.
We learn about the scientific experts, religious leaders, public
officials, and journalists who attacked and ignored same-sex
sexualities. And we read about the courageous people who fought
back with strategies of everyday resistance and organized political
activism.
Stein argues against the idea that a conspiracy of silence
surrounded gays and lesbians in the 1940s and 1950s. He shows that
same-sex sexualities were regularly discussed in controversies
concerning the tennis player Big Bill Tilden, the Walt Whitman
Bridge, sex murders and crimes, and police raids. Philadelphians
became national leaders in the gay and lesbian movement. They
conducted sit-ins at Dewey's restaurant, organized pickets at
Independence Hall, edited the movement's most widely circulated
publications the "Ladder" and "Drum," and pursued court cases all
the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Beautifully crafted and exceptionally well-written, Stein's book
not only provides a new starting place for thinking about lesbian
and gay history butalso challenges readers to rethink
twentieth-century urban history.
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