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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation

Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation - Paperback

by Jim Downs
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jim DownsPublish date:2020-02-01Pages:278
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820356440ISBN-10:820356441UPC:9780820356440Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:20th Century, Gay StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCXD0S1FZ2
With Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together--as friends, fellow believers, and colleagues--to create a sense of community among people who felt alienated from mainstream American life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820356440ISBN-10:820356441UPC:9780820356440Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Social History, LGBTQ+ StudiesBook Topic:20th Century, Gay StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCXD0S1FZ2
JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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