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1 online resource (vi, 267 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Examining the crucial relationship between sexuality, race, and class, Beyond the Politics of the Closet highlights the impact gay rights politics and activism have had on the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions of the 1960s. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Privilege, power, and activism in gay rights politics since the 1970s / Jonathan Bell -- PART I. Public policy comes out: the 1970s. 1. A clinic comes out: idealism, pragmatism, and gay health services in Boston, 1971-1985 / Katie Batza -- 2. "A ray of sunshine": housing, family, and gay political power in 1970s Los Angeles / Ian M. Baldwin -- 3. Making sexual citizens: LGBT politics, health care, and the state in the 1970s / Jonathan Bell -- PART II. Confronting AIDS. 4. AIDS and the urban crisis: stigma, cost, and the persistence of racism in Chicago, 1981-1996 / Timothy Stewart-Winter -- 5. "Don't we die too?": the politics of AIDS and race in Philadelphia / Dan Royles -- 6. Black gay lives matter: mobilizing sexual identities in the eras of Reagan and Thatcher conservativism / Kevin Mumford -- PART III. Beyond liberalism and conservatism. 7. Gay and conservative: an early history of the Log Cabin Republicans / Clayton Howard -- 8. "No discrimination & no special rights": gay rights, family values, and the politics of moderation in the 1992 election / Rachel Guberman -- 9. Homophobia baiting: queering the Trayvon Martin archives and challenging the antiblackness of color-blind politics / Julio Capó Jr. -- Notes -- List of contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays seeks to explore the impact that gay rights politics and activism have had on the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions of the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher |
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DRM-free. |
| Subject |
Gay liberation movement -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Gay liberation movement. |
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United States. |
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Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Gay rights. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Politics and government. |
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Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Gays. |
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Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Gay rights. |
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Homosexuals. |
| Added Author |
Bell, Jonathan, 1976- editor.
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| Added Title |
Gay rights and the American state since the 1970s |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Beyond the politics of the closet. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020] 9780812251852 (DLC) 2019032105 (OCoLC)1113314535 |
| ISBN |
0812296729 (electronic book) |
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9780812296723 (electronic book) |
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9780812251852 (hardcover) |
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