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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
by Jim Downs
Re-examines the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that gay people developed a national community within the decade that focused on political identity, oppression, and literary achievements as main issues of the gay liberation movement.
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Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
by Ann Bausum
The award-winning author of Marching to the Mountaintop presents a history of gay tolerance that traces the progression of civil rights for gay citizens and identifies the prejudices and misconceptions that have criminalized homosexual relationships.
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A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity across the World
by R. B. Parkinson
Documents the history of homosexuality and its representation in art, using objects from the British Museum's collection that date from 9000 BC to the present to illustrate how same-sex love has always been a part of human history.
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
by Lillian Faderman
A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
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My Thinning Years: Starving the Gay Within
by Jon Derek Croteau
The author tells the story of growing up denying his homosexuality in order to earn the love of his abusive father and how he eventually faced his sexual identity and began sorting through years of repressed anger.
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Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay
by Ritch C Savin-Williams
Savin-Williams's manuscript traces the lives of young gay men as they negotiated the transition from their teen years into adulthood. It focuses on key developmental milestones, including first sexual memories, first crushes, coming out to friends and families, and first adult relationships. The manuscript is drawn from in-depth interviews with 41 individuals from the "millennial" generation; each was interviewed multiple times across their teenage years into their early twenties. The author investigates how their senses of self and their public identities shifted across time, how their sexuality and sexual experiences did--and did not--affect their relationships with family, friends, and peers, how they dealt with new responsibilities, etc. He also uses the stories to shed light on the findings of recent research on gay youth, teenagers, and young adults.
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