![]() ![]() ![]() The Gay Revolution not only offers an update, moving the story forward to cover gay marriage, but also goes back in time to capture the years before the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn and, I hope, to bury forever the myth that the gay rights movement began at that bar in Greenwich Village. And the story of Sally Duplaix, who was forced to undergo electroshock therapy because of her defiant insistence on a lesbian identity, is inspiring.Ĭomparisons will be made between Faderman's work and the earlier telling of the story, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (1999). Her descriptions of the Gay Activists Alliance's “zaps” (raucous public demonstrations designed to embarrass public figures)-especially the frequent zaps of New York City mayor John Lindsay-are vivid. Characters such as Harry Hay, William Dale Jennings, and Marilyn Rieger of the Mattachine Society, a gay rights organization founded in 1950, seem new. Even for those who thought they knew these stories, her retelling captures overlooked details. ![]() She succeeds admirably in bringing to life the vast number of colorful and diverse characters in this struggle. Lillian Faderman set the ambitious goal of chronicling the gay rights movement from its humble origins behind closed doors in post–World War II California to the major legal victories of the Obama administration concerning gay military personnel and marriage equality. ![]()
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