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Author Donovan, Josephine, 1941- author.

Title The Lexington Six : lesbian and gay resistance in 1970s America / Josephine Donovan
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- The Story -- Chapter One. Lena and May in Lexington -- Chapter Two. FBI Dragnet -- Chapter Three. Grand Jury Resistance -- Chapter Four. Contempt of Court and Jail -- Chapter Five. Jail Time -- Chapter Six. Collaboration Versus Resistance -- Chapter Seven. A Culture of Resistance -- Chapter Eight. Grand Jury Abuse: Growing Public Awareness -- Chapter Nine. Jill Raymond Freed -- Concluding Summary and Commentary -- Afterword and Acknowledgments -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary "On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, whom they saw as invading their lives and community. Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group's resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today's America. Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 2, 2022)
Subject Power, Katherine Ann.
Saxe, Susan.
SUBJECT Saxe, Susan
Power, Katherine Ann
Saxe, Susan fast
Subject Gay people -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Case studies
Fugitives from justice -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Case studies
Civil rights -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Case studies
Gay rights -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Civil rights
Fugitives from justice
Gay rights
Gays
Gay rights
Kentucky -- Lexington
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781613767894
1613767897
9781613767900
1613767900