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Author : James Thomas Sears
Release : 2001
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones by : James Thomas Sears
Download or read book Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones written by James Thomas Sears. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet. A richly told history of queer Southern life in the 1970s, after the Stonewall uprising.
Author : Susana Peña
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Oye Loca by : Susana Peña
Download or read book Oye Loca written by Susana Peña. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During only a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the United States as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. The images of boats of all sizes, in various conditions, filled with Cubans of all colors and ages, triggered a media storm. Fleeing Cuba’s repressive government, many homosexual men and women arrived in the United States only to face further obstacles. Deemed “undesirables” by the U.S. media, the Cuban state, and Cuban Americans already living in Miami, these new entrants marked a turning point in Miami’s Cuban American and gay histories. In Oye Loca, Susana Peña investigates a moment of cultural collision. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the United States and Cuba, Peña reveals how these discussions both sensationalized and silenced the gay presence, giving way to a Cuban American gay culture. Through an examination of the diverse lives of Cuban and Cuban American gay men, we learn that Miami’s gay culture was far from homogeneous. By way of in-depth interviews, participant observation, and archival analysis, Peña shows that the men who crowded into small apartments together, bleached their hair with peroxide, wore housedresses in the street, and endured ruthless insults challenged what it meant to be Cuban in Miami. Making a critical incision through the study of heteronormativity, homosexualities, and racialization, ultimately Oye Loca illustrates how a single historical event helped shape the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.
Author : Dale Carpenter
Release : 2012-03-12
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 082/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas by : Dale Carpenter
Download or read book Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas written by Dale Carpenter. This book was released on 2012-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed legal history and examines the motives of all players involved with the landmark Supreme Court gay rights case that protected consenting adults' rights, regardless of sexual preference, in the bedroom.
Author : Robert W. Fieseler
Release : 2018-06-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by : Robert W. Fieseler
Download or read book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation written by Robert W. Fieseler. This book was released on 2018-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime) Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers Finalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association) Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf Awareness An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans’ subterranean gay community. Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumatic—families ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors’ needs—revealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs.
Author : William N. Eskridge
Release : 2008
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 628/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dishonorable Passions by : William N. Eskridge
Download or read book Dishonorable Passions written by William N. Eskridge. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior traces the historical purposes behind the prohibition against sodomy in early America and continues with a discussion of how the law was referenced in different contexts in later years, covering such topics as the McCarthy era, the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the 2003 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize private sex between consenting adults. 20,000 first printing.
