Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McGarry and Wasserman successfully manage to draw similarities between the gay struggle for recognition and equality and other civil rights struggles of the last century. Grounding queer history in long-standing traditions of definition and prohibition, as well as in twentieth-century American history, the book establishes a structured framework within which its subject matter can be understood. Moving Through historical events known to the general reader, the writers relate gay and lesbian history to already familiar landmarks. Thus, the book takes a new look at such diverse phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, the world wars, the McCarthy hearings...
...homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter his political manipulations. Instead of trying to define and establish a unique and separate culture, gay activists decided to strive for assimilation by attempting to establish a niche in society for homosexuals. Queer groups began fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic material and writings on gay topics through the mail, the lack of legal social spaces in which gay couples and singles could congregate, the exclusion of homosexuals from the military and the attempts...
...well-defined purposes, members leave to found their own societies with differing goals. The lesbian organizations branch off from gay groups and join up with feminism. Radical in-your-face activists split off from those seeking legal victories. With the slogan "Out of the closets and into the streets" queer groups made their presence and power known within society. Attempting to strike down anti-gay legislation, queer groups established powerful legal and educational networks. The strength of these networks, partly a result of Stonewall, was instrumental in con- fronting AIDS...
While the Stonewall riots are clearly seen asholding immense symbolic significance, the writersargue that this significance appears in partbecause the riots are seen as a creation myth anda rallying point of the queer fight for civilrights. We must, however, never forget theimportance of the history that broke the groundfor the organization of the 1970s. Warning ofdangers to gay civil rights--in the last twentyyears influential Republicans like PatrickBuchanan, Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich havespoken against homosexuality--the authors manageto convey the importance of the organizationalstructure established through the efforts of thepre-Stonewall activists and which became empoweredby the riots...
Becoming Visible is a history thatshould be important to queer and heterosexualreaders alike. Addressing the history of a cultureall Americans share and outlining the historicalrise of a minority group within this culture, theauthors offer the opportunity for a reevaluationof the recent past and of past and currentstereotypes. The history is well written, withnumerous illustrations supporting the text...