The world turned : essays on gay history, politics, and culture / John D'Emilio.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.Description: xiii, 264 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0822329301
  • 9780822329305
  • 0822330237
  • 9780822330233
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/0664/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ76.8.U5 D454 2002
Contents:
Homophobia and the course of postwar American radicalism: the career of Bayard Rustin -- Placing gay in the sixties -- Still radical after all these years: remembering Out of the closets -- A meaning for all those words: sex, politics, history, and Larry Kramer -- Cycles of change, questions of strategy: the gay and lesbian movement after 50 years -- Organizational tales: interpreting the NGLTF story -- Why is this year different from any other? -- The Clinton election: historical perspectives at a moment of change -- Stonewall: myth and meaning -- Born gay? -- What does gay liberation have to do with the war in Bosnia? -- Laying claim to family -- Visions of leadership: remembering Ken Dawson -- My changing sex life -- Then and now: the shifting context of gay historical writing -- A biographer and his subject: wrestling with Bayard Rustin.
Awards:
  • Lambda Literary Award 2002: Editor's Choice.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Homophobia and the course of postwar American radicalism: the career of Bayard Rustin -- Placing gay in the sixties -- Still radical after all these years: remembering Out of the closets -- A meaning for all those words: sex, politics, history, and Larry Kramer -- Cycles of change, questions of strategy: the gay and lesbian movement after 50 years -- Organizational tales: interpreting the NGLTF story -- Why is this year different from any other? -- The Clinton election: historical perspectives at a moment of change -- Stonewall: myth and meaning -- Born gay? -- What does gay liberation have to do with the war in Bosnia? -- Laying claim to family -- Visions of leadership: remembering Ken Dawson -- My changing sex life -- Then and now: the shifting context of gay historical writing -- A biographer and his subject: wrestling with Bayard Rustin.

Lambda Literary Award 2002: Editor's Choice.

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