Has the Gay Movement Failed?

Martin Duberman

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780520298866
• eBook ISBN: 9780520970847
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Social Sciences

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the cost—the sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault lines both within and beyond the movements of the past and today, this critical book is also hopeful: Duberman urges us to learn from this history to fight for a truly inclusive and expansive society.

Index

ablebodiness and ableism, 98, 111

abolitionists, 105

abortion, 33

activism, gay, 10, 96, 109

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), 63

adolescents, 56, 80; gay, 78–88; gender-affirming surgery and, 149, 222n44; gender dysphoria in, 221–22n42; puberty blockers for, 149, 159, 222n44; sexuality of, 6, 25, 78. See also teenagers

adoption rights, 106, 171

affirmation, politics of, 115

affirmative action, 172

Affordable Care Act, 185–86

Afghanistan, 195

Africa, homosexuality in, 82, 195

African Americans, 114; as gays, 41, 109, 166, 169. See also Black Panthers; blacks

agency, consent and, 80–81

age of consent, 78, 80, 83, 84, 87

AIDS, 7, 9, 63, 172, 174, 210n6

Ainsworth, Mary, 119

Alaska’s “Permanent Fund,” 190

alcohol, alcoholism, 25, 74

allies, 74; potential, 166, 171–72, 199; transformational interactions with, 173–74

alternative behavior modification therapy, 148

altruism, 113, 115, 203

American Dream, 60–61

Amerika, 20

anal sex, xiv, 38, 100. See also sodomy

anarchism, 76; GLF and, 9–10

androgyny, 3, 120–21, 203

animals: bestiality and, xiv, 25; sexual fluidity in, 122

anthropology, 123–24, 143

anti-authoritarianism of GLF, 13–14

anti-discrimination laws, 90

antigay discrimination, 65, 98, 99, 106

antiwar movement, xvi, xvii, 27; GLF and, 16, 26. See also Vietnam, war in

anxiety, social media and, 117

APA (American Psychiatric Association), 11–12, 14

apomorphine, 11–12

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Table of contents

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• I. Storming the Citadel
• II. Love, Work, Sex
• III. Equality or Liberation?
• IV. Whose Left?
• Notes
• Index
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