Smash the Church, Smash the State! (eBook)

The Early Years of Gay Liberation

Tommi Avicolli Mecca (Herausgeber)

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2020
City Lights Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-87286-842-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Forty years after Stonewall, a look at the origins and influences of the Gay Liberation movement.

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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 movementone 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.

Autor

lt;p>Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a former member of Gay Liberation Front who has never stopped being an activist for queer and social justice causes. His writings have appeared in various anthologies over the years, and he is a contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, SF Examiner and SF Bay Guardian, among other newspapers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: first-person accounts of the Gay Liberation Movement • intersectionality of Civil Rights • LGBTQ literary anthology • LGBTQ revolution • personal testimonies • radical activism • stonewall riots • the Cockettes drag burlesque
• ISBN-10: 0-87286-842-7 / 0872868427
• ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-842-7 / 9780872868427