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Weight
506grams
Subjects
History, North America, Early 20th Century 1901-1913, Jim Downs,
Pages
272
Size
16.5 x 2.5 x 24.5 cm
Publication Date
24 Mar. 2016
ISBN
9780465032709
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Name
Stand by Me: the Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
Item Height
241mm
Author
Jim Downs
Publisher
Basic Books
Item Width
166mm
Subject
History
Item Weight
500g
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph- both political and sexual- before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called gay lifestyle .In Stand by Me , the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centres in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together- as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues- to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life.As Downs shows, gay people found one another in the Metropolitan Community Church, a nationwide gay religious group in the pages of the Body Politic , a newspaper that encouraged its readers to think of their sexuality as a political identity at the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore, the hub of gay literary life in New York City and at theatres putting on Gay American History, a play that brought to the surface the enduring problem of gay oppression.These and many other achievements would be largely forgotten after the arrival in the early 1980s of HIV/AIDS, which allowed critics to claim that sex was the defining feature of gay liberation. This reductive narrative set back the cause of gay rights and has shaped the identities of gay people for decades.An essential act of historical recovery, Stand by Me shines a bright light on a triumphant moment, and will transform how we think about gay life in America from the 1970s into the present day.

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Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465032709
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Author
Jim Downs
Publication Name
Stand by Me: the Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Height
241mm
Item Width
166mm
Item Weight
500g

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Jim Downs
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United States

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