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The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction
A lot of work and research went into this book! I really appreciated the ways that these authors divided the American LGBTQ Rights movement into eras and offered diverse perspectives from each time period. Within content on LGBTQ rights, it is common to hear about a limited main figures from Fresh York or San Francisco, but this book also offers, for example, experiences of queer people from pre-Stonewall Texas and Ohio.
Content is accurate and well-chosen; authors do a excellent job of highlighting historical events and why they are important.
This book speaks to issues up until , the year of publication. The final chapter may need to be reorganized to update in the future; perhaps the beginning of the 21st century will need to become its own particular era, with a other concluding chapter. Still, I think this book will be relevant without updates for several years.
Clear prose that uses terminology of queer communities without excessive jargon. Statements at the beginning of chapters clarify that the appropriateness of a given term changes over time, and explains how the terminology used in the era of the current chapter
The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction
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Abstract
The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction is a peer-reviewed chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal rights from the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Illustrated with historical photographs, the book beautifully reveals the heroic people and key events that shaped the American LGBTQ rights movement. The book includes personal narratives to capture the lived experience from each era, as adv as details of crucial organizations, texts, and court cases that defined LGBTQ activism and advocacy.
Disciplines
History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Keywords
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person, Transgender, Queer
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During the nineteenth century, the first gay liberation thinkers laid the groundwork for a militant movement that demanded the end of the criminalization, pathologisation and social rejection of non-heterosexual sexuality. In , the Swiss man Heinrich Hössli () published in German the first essay demanding recognition of the rights of those who followed what he called masculine love. Nearly three decades later, the German jurist Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs () wrote twelve volumes between and as part of his “Research on the Mystery of Love Between Men” (“Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe”). He also circulated a manifesto to create a federation of Uranians (), a term which designated men who loved men. He was engaged in the struggle to repeal § of the German penal code, which condemned “unnatural relations between men,” and in publicly declared he was a Uranist during a congress of German jurists. He died in exile in Italy before the birth of the liberation movement which he had called for.
A first gay liberation movement emerged in Berlin in , revolving around the surgeon Magnus Hirschfeld (),co-founder of the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäre Komitee (WhK, S
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During the nineteenth century, the first gay liberation thinkers laid the groundwork for a militant movement that demanded the end of the criminalization, pathologisation and social rejection of non-heterosexual sexuality. In , the Swiss man Heinrich Hössli () published in German the first essay demanding recognition of the rights of those who followed what he called masculine love. Nearly three decades later, the German jurist Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs () wrote twelve volumes between and as part of his “Research on the Mystery of Love Between Men” (“Forschungen über das Räthsel der mannmännlichen Liebe”). He also circulated a manifesto to create a federation of Uranians (), a term which designated men who loved men. He was engaged in the struggle to repeal § of the German penal code, which condemned “unnatural relations between men,” and in publicly declared he was a Uranist during a congress of German jurists. He died in exile in Italy before the birth of the liberation movement which he had called for.
A first gay liberation movement emerged in Berlin in , revolving around the surgeon Magnus Hirschfeld (),co-founder of the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäre Komitee (WhK, S
.