San Francisco Bay Area Gay Liberation
Author : Bay Area Gay Liberation
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN :
Author : Bay Area Gay Liberation
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN :
Author : Susan Stryker
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1996-03
Category : History
ISBN :
Intelligently written and attractively illustrated and designed, this study of gay and lesbian history culture in San Francisco begins with the cross-dressing practices of 18th-century Native Americans and continues through to the signing of municipal transgender laws in 1995 in the "Gay Capital of the World." Some 300 well-chosen black-and- white and color photos document the history (though none are sexually explicit, there is some nudity). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bay Area Gay Liberation
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN :
Author : Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0872868427
This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalesced into a turbulent, joyous liberation movement—one whose lasting influence would ultimately inform and profoundly shape the LGBT community of today. Personal essays explore the philosophy and culture of the stridently anti-assimilationist GLF: the actions, demonstrations and marches; views on marriage, religion and gender; the drugs, orgies and communes; and GLF’s relationship to the hippies, the Black Panthers, the straight Left, the women’s movement, civil rights and the antiwar struggle. The collection includes contributions from Martha Shelley, Cei Bell, Paola Bacchetta, Susan Stryker, Tom Ammiano, Nikos Diaman, Mark Segal, Barbara Ruth and Perry Brass.
Author : Gale Chester Whittington
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Gay activists
ISBN : 9781609105976
"I wrote this book to set the record straight, because little about the 1969 militant gay movement in the San Francisco Bay Area has been detailed in print. While many brave activists have contributed to the cause before and since, a close look shows how the militant side of gay liberation actually began within the bowels of San Francisco a few months before the New York Stonewall uprising. The concept of a coming out en masse as a way to enlighten and change the world was born in the hilly streets of the City by the Bay and championed by Gale Whittington and Leo Laurence, co-founders of the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF). Indeed, this book shows how a handful of fiery West Coast gay guerillas fanned the sparks that helped inspire participants at Stonewall to stand and fight openly for their rights, thereby passing along a torch that would ignite the movement to liberate gays and enlighten heterosexuals around the world"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Cleve Jones
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316315443
This sweeping memoir tells the life story of longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist Cleve Jones in a profoundly moving account from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his involvement with the marriage equality battle. Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, nearly penniless, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. Jones found community--in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers, in the city's bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud, and in the burgeoning gay district, the Castro, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop, began shouting through his bullhorn, and soon became the nation's most outspoken gay elected official. With Milk's encouragement, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in "the movement." When Milk was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1978, Jones took up his mentor's progressive mantle--only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious, When We Rise is Jones' account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS, which very nearly killed him, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing, sexy, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve's passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and and violence alike. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life. Lambda Literary Award Winner The partial inspiration for the ABC television mini-series! "You could read Cleve Jones's book because you should know about the struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights from one of its key participants--maybe heroes--but really, you should read it for pleasure and joy."--Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me
Author : Nan Alamilla Boyd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2003-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520204158
She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco before 1965."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bill Walker
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Gay liberation movement
ISBN :
Author : Emily K. Hobson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520279050
LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements.ÊLavender and RedÊrecounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. HobsonÊrediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.