Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay RevolutionSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 25 mai 2010 - 352 pagini David Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. |
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... politicians, police vice squads—which New York City was the first to create—attempted to control homosexuals by observing locales where they congregated, using decoys to entice them, and raiding gay bars and baths.30 When Prohibition ...
... political resistance began in 1950 in Los Angeles when Harry Hay founded the Mattachine Society. This marked the ... political action.” The Mattachine Society began taking political action sooner than planned when a police officer ...
... politics of some of the Society's founders, most notably Hay who had been a member of the Communist Party. When it ... political activism was lost.34 In Chicago, sixteen-year-old Craig Rodwell, a high school junior in 1957, left his ...
... political science. Arthur concluded that the confrontation with Glatfelter offered several lessons for successful political activism: take a principled stand, be smart about it, get a lot of media attention, and have some friends who ...
... Politics remained very much on his mind, and as he contemplated the park's arch, built to honor George Washington, he noticed a quotation by the revolutionary inscribed on the arch's top: “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and ...
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THE STONEWALL RIOTS | 127 |
GAY LIBERATION | 207 |
Authors Note | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 273 |
Notes | 277 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Oral Histories | 319 |
Credits for the Photographs | 321 |
Index | 323 |
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution David Carter Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2004 |