This is the first collection of the words and speeches of the founder of the Mattachine Society and the modern gay movement.

This book explains the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement, from its early years prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969 and its continuation into the 1970s.

This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay Youth (GY), Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and the Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School (GWHS) -- from the advent of ...

A series of essays concerning the Gay Liberation Movement, from individuals and groups associated with the movement.

Including a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, this book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone interested in learning more about the struggle for equality.

"A pleasure...a really sensitive, lucid account of his personal liberation...a penetrating analysis of the political premises and goals and philosophical background of the movement." —The New York Times "The one to read...may very well be ...

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868 OCo1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement.

"Forty years after the publication of Dennis Altman's classic, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, this collection of memoir, political reflection and creative non-fiction brings together an exemplary line up of writers, spanning ...

This book describes both the origins and the forms of society's oppressive reaction; it shows, too, how that oppression is being resisted. Reaction in the communist countries is compared to that in the West.