The definitive account of the gay rights movement, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good is comprehensive, authoritative, and excellently written.
This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and?until now?untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America's culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever.
Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important?and nearly lost?chapter in American history.
Autorentext
Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney
Inhalt
Contents
Introduction: An Invisible People
Part One: Awakening
1. A Fight at a Bar
2. Los Angeles
3. New York
4. Climbing the System
5. First Stirrings
6. Sisters and Brothers
Part Two: A Place at the Table
7. Kameny for Congress
8. A Voice in the Statehouse
9. The Fifth Column
10. San Francisco: Coming to Power
11. In Our Mothers' Names
12. New Orleans: Fire UpStairs
13. Ordinary People
14. A Question of Sanity
15. Elaine
16. Minneapolis: The Coat Check
17. Ordinary Things
18. Citizen Goodstein
19. Brothers and Sisters
Part Three: The Backlash
20. The Governor of Georgia
21. A Voice in the White House
22. Miami: The Fundamentalists Awake
23. A Very Bad Year
24. An Uneasy Victory in San Francisco
25. Money in the Hills of Bel Air
26. A Black-Tie Affair
27. California: The Main Event
28. A Friend in City Hall
29. Colliding Forces
30. The Pink Invitation
31. Until the Party Ended
Part Four: Out of Anger
32. After Disco
33. Swept Away
34. Little to Celebrate
35. For the Public Good
36. Cop at the Door
37. Requiem
Epilogue
Cast of Characters and Interviewees
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index