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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...
...openly gay University of Wyoming student. In reality, Harvard-affiliated attendees at the memorial vigil included students and faculty members from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Divinity School, many of whom are dedicated delegates to the Harvard Queer Leadership Network, a university-wide organizing body. Indeed, in researching this article, Wasserman called one of our delegates and was told that there had been a Harvard presence at the vigil...
...writers are leaders of queer organizations at the College and several Harvard graduate schools. JARVIS T. CHEN, School of Public Health NICOLE LYN DEBLOSI '99 SARAH L. DUNCAN '84, Co-chair, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus RACHEL KRAMER '99 KARA LEWIS, Divinity School RAFAEL MANDELMAN, Kennedy School of Govt. SHARON MCGOWAN, LAW School...
...scruffy radicalism of the old gay-liberation movement. But after 25 years, it still has virtually no lobbying presence on Capitol Hill. In the later 1980s the AIDS epidemic brought forth the street-theater militancy of ACT UP and in 1990 the in-your-face tribalism of Queer Nation. "We here, we're queer, get used to it" was an interesting statement of the facts. But the cutting edge of gay politics threatened to cut gays off altogether from the give and take of lawmaking...