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1 online resource (600 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Behind the Mask of the Mattachine; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Logos, Eros, and Psyche; SECTION I: RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 1. Who Was Hal Call?; Chapter 2. The Final Visit; Chapter 3. In a Dream; Chapter 4. Q & A; SECTION II: FOUNDATIONS; Chapter 5. German Roots; Chapter 6. Boyhood; Chapter 7. Egos and Eros; Chapter 8. Making Contacts; Chapter 9. Three-Cornered Conversation; Chapter 10. War Buddies; Chapter 11. The Fifth Order; Chapter 12. Letters Home; Chapter 13. Coming Out |
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SECTION III: MATTACHINE (1950-1953)Chapter 14. Organizing in the Bay Area; Chapter 15. Cracks in the Foundation; Chapter 16. Conventional Wisdom; Chapter 17. Chuck and Gerry; Chapter 18. Conflict Across the Bay; Chapter 19. On the Edge of Midnight; Chapter 20. The "Unravelment of Dreams"; Chapter 21. Q & A II; Chapter 22. Mattachine Melee; Chapter 23. Gerry's Farewell; Chapter 24. Moments in Time; SECTION IV: SEXUALITIES; Chapter 25. 1973: Theater of the Absurd; Chapter 26. 1964-1965: Our Man Flint; Chapter 27. 1954: Pan-Graphic; Chapter 28. 1985: Sexual Rebels; Chapter 29. 2000: Harold and Hal |
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Chapter 30. 1956: Fear and RespectabilityChapter 31. 1957: Game of Fools; Chapter 32. January 28, 1958: Hal's Turn; Chapter 33. 1958: Bitchery-Butchery; Chapter 34. 1959: Calling Shots, Dispelling Darkness, Going Public; Chapter 35. 2006: A Candid Conversation Across Gay Generations; Chapter 36. 1960: Verboten; Chapter 37. 1960: A House Divided; Chapter 38. 1961: The Rejected; Chapter 39. 1967: The Furtive Fraternity; Chapter 40. The Mask of Desire; Index |
Summary |
Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history?and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today's societyThe Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America's first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, the Hal Call Chronicles travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of t |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
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Call, Hal, -2000.
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Call, Hal, -2000 fast |
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Mattachine Society -- History
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Mattachine Society fast |
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Gay activists -- United States -- Biography
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Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Gay activists
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Gay liberation movement
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781136568725 |
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1136568727 |
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