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Author D'Emilio, John.

Title The world turned : essays on gay history, politics, and culture / John D'Emilio
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Homophobia and the course of postwar American radicalism : the career of Bayard Rustin -- Placing gay in the sixties -- Still radical after all these years : remembering Out of the closets -- A meaning for all those words : sex, politics, history, and Larry Kramer -- Cycles of change, questions of strategy : the gay and lesbian movement after 50 years -- Organizational tales : interpreting the NGLTF story -- Why is this year different from any other? -- The Clinton election : historical perspectives at a moment of change -- Stonewall : myth and meaning -- Born gay? -- What does gay liberation have to do with the war in Bosnia? -- Laying claim to family -- Visions of leadership : remembering Ken Dawson -- My changing sex life -- Then and now : the shifting context of gay historical writing -- A biographer and his subject : wrestling with Bayard Rustin
Summary Distinguished historian and leading gay-rights activist D'Emilio show how gay issues moved from the margins to the center of national consciousness during the critical decade of the 1990s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Gay men -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Lesbians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Gay men
Gay rights
Lesbians
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
Homosexueller
Rechtsstellung
Gay rights
20e siècle.
Changement social.
Condition sociale.
Coutume.
Droits des homosexuels.
Histoire.
Homosexuel.
Lesbienne.
Moeurs.
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140543
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
Subject United States
USA
États-Unis.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383925
0822383926
0822330237
9780822330233
1283064111
9781283064118