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The Gay Revolution

The Story of the Struggle

by Lillian Faderman
Donna Postel
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The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth, and intricacies that only an award-winning activist, scholar, and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke.
The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s, the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties, the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic, and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.

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  • Release date

    October 13, 2015

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781494597184
      • File size: 843770 KB
      • Duration: 29:17:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Faderman's comprehensive history of the LGBTQ movement stands as a fascinating, powerful, and impressive audiobook. As narrator for this massive production, Donna Postel delivers a consistent and lively performance throughout more than 30 hours of listening. She has a mature voice with a light rasp to it. The story provides in-depth and wide-ranging research, including interviews with many of the movement's influential people since the 1950s. Postel captures the tone and sometimes even the vocal style of many of the people quoted. In doing so, she avoids caricature and gives a sense of authenticity and sincerity to the production. L.E. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 6, 2015
      Faderman (Naked in the Promised Land), a scholar of lesbian history and literature, renders the slow transformation of culture into a sweeping narrative of the American struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights. She digs deep into media and legislative archives to construct a comprehensive narrative, beginning in the 1950s with the scapegoating of homosexuals under “vag-lewds” law and the first formulation of homosexuals as a minority group, and continuing to the current and recent legal fights around the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), hate crime legislation, and marriage equality. Faderman depicts the struggle as a conflict between “suits and streets,” offering balanced coverage of both meticulous lobbying from the government, military, and professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association, and the rapid changes wrought by historical radicalizations such as the Stonewall riots, the Harvey Milk riots, and the aggressive medical activism of ACT UP. First-person accounts from over 100 interviews conducted as original research for the book punctuate this extraordinary story. Faderman’s immense cultural history will give today’s LGBTQ activists both a profound appreciation of their forebears and the motivation to carry the struggle forward.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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