Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights

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	What is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution »rank: 93072 by: E. J. Graff : :Will same-sex couples destroy 'traditional' marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled throughout history whenever the marriage rules change. But marriage, as E. J. Graff shows in this lively, fascinating tour through the history of marriage in the West, has always been a social battleground, its rules constantly shifting to fit each era and economy. The marriage debates have been especially tumultuous for the past hundred and fifty years—in ways that lead directly ...		Men of WW II: Fighting Men at Ease »rank: 76925 by: Evan Bachner : :The long awaited follow up to the original At Ease presents 160 new, never before published photographs of WWll Navy men. These photos are not the combat photography we’re so accustomed to seeing; here are disarmingly winsome and playful pictures of sailors and soldiers at leisure, displaying an innocent affection for each other that is practically unthinkable today. This was a time when men had no reservations about showing their devotion to their comrades through physical contact, and the included photographs are ...
	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century »rank: 68364 by: John Boswell : :'Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition.'—Michel FoucaultJohn Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive ...		Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution »rank: 315294 by: David Carter : :'Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night.' - Boston Globeln 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall lnn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little ...
	Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 »rank: 54053 by: George Chauncey : :Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet.		Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History »rank: 6915250 by: Cathy Caruth : :'lf Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet.'--from the lntroductionln Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the 'widespread and bewildering experience of trauma' in our century--both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it--we ...
	Homosexuality and Civilization »rank: 270769 by: Louis Crompton : : How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? ln a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. ...		A Strong Delusion »rank: 218539 by: Joe Dallas : : How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? ln a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. ...
	Capote: A Biography »rank: 76046 by: Gerald Clarke : :Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored ln Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and celebrated writer's descent into the life of alcohol and drugs that would ultimately consume his bulldog spirit and staggering talent—but not before he'd ...		Making Gay History: The Half Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights »rank: 155436 by: Eric Marcus : :From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992.Using the heart-felt stories of more than 60 people, he carries us through the compelling five-decade battle that has changed the fabric of American society. The rich tapestry that emerges from Making ...