The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Here is the drag queens' giddily angry kickline at the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots, as street youth and butch lesbians and outcast gay folk refuse, at long last, to be carted off to jail for being queer.īut even as Faderman builds on 40 years of scholarship in LGBT history, she goes beyond what’s already been chronicled, beyond the familiar peaks and valleys that have entered the culture’s civil rights lexicon. Here's Barbara Gittings in her proper dress and Kameny in his shirt and tie, the "mother" and "father" of the gay rights movement, politely picketing the federal government at a time when doing so could destroy lives. ![]() ![]() Army Map Service and stripped of his federal security clearance for homosexuality - and who became a lifetime crusader for gay rights. In the District of Columbia, there's Hay's mirror image, Frank Kameny, a brilliant astronomer who in 1957 was dismissed from the U.S. In California, here's groundbreaking gay activist Harry Hay getting ousted from Mattachine, the "homophile" group he started, after the middle-class men and women it attracted began to reject his communism and aim instead for respectability. ![]() For those of us who've been reading gay history since scholars such as Faderman, George Chauncey, John D'Emilio and Michael Bronski began publishing their research several decades ago, some of what follows is as familiar as a bedtime story. ![]()
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