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The rise of a gay and lesbian movement

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The past decade has seen a wealth of changes in the gay and lesbian movement and a remarkable growth in gay and lesbian studies. In response to this heightened activity Barry D. Adam has updated his 1987 study of the movement to offer a critical reflection on strategies and objectives that have been developed for the protection and welfare of those who love others of their own sex.

This revised volume addresses the movement's recovery of momentum in the wake of New Right campaigns and its gains in human rights and domestic partners' legislation in several countries; the impact of AIDS on movement issues and strategies and the renewal of militant tactics through AIDS activism and Queer Nation; internal debates that continually shift the meanings composing homosexual, gay, lesbian, and queer identities and cultures; the proliferation of new movement groups in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa; and new developments in historical scholarship that are enriching our understanding of same-sex bonding in the past.

Adam delineates the formation of gay and lesbian movements as truly a world phenomenon, exploring their histories in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, Australia, and countries for which very little information about the activities of gay men and lesbians has been made available. In this global picture of the mobilization of homosexuals Adam identifies the critical factors that have given personal and historical subjectivity to desire, that have shaped the faces and territories of homosexual people, and that have generated homophobia and heterosexism.

Treating the sociological aspects of the rise of the gay and lesbian movement, Adam also looks at "new social movements" theory in relation to the gay and lesbian movement and cultural nationalism - whether in the form of cultural feminism or queer nationalism - which he considers an important, perhaps inevitable, moment in the empowerment of inferiorized people.

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Twayne Publishers
Language
English
Pages
203

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The rise of a gay and lesbian movement
1995, Twayne Publishers
in English - Rev. ed.
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The rise of a gay and lesbian movement
1987, Twayne Publishers
in English

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Published in

Boston

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 194-196.
Includes index.

Series
Social movements past and present

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.7/66/09
Library of Congress
HQ76.5 .A33 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 203 p. ;
Number of pages
203

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Open Library
OL2735193M
Internet Archive
riseofgaylesbian00adamrich
ISBN 10
0805797149, 0805797157
LCCN
86029549
OCLC/WorldCat
14904421
Library Thing
443150
Goodreads
1136068
6892855

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