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Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history
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"The movement for gay and lesbian rights in America is a response to long-held beliefs that have, at times throughout the history of our country, made homosexuality legally, politically, and social...
"The movement for gay and lesbian rights in America is a response to long-held beliefs that have, at times throughout the history of our country, made homosexuality legally, politically, and socially unacceptable. This collection of primary documents explores those beliefs and their counter-arguments, providing varying viewpoints on the complex issue of gay and lesbian rights. Personal testimonies, laws, opinion pieces, court cases, and other documents, dating from colonial times to the present day, encourage students to challenge their assumptions and strengthen critical thinking skills."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- edited by Walter L. Williams and Yolanda Retter
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- Language
- English
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 317 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780313306969, 0313306966
- OCLC
- ocm50645772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-299) and index.
- Introduction / Walter L. Williams -- Pt. I. The Clash of Religions -- Document 1. Navajo Sacredness for Nadleeh -- Document 2. Illinois Indian Transgender (1677) -- Document 3. Miami Indian Sodomy (1702) -- Document 4. Native American Transgendered Females -- Document 5. Lakota Respect for Two-Spirit People (1982) -- Document 6. The Bible: Sodom and Gomorrah -- Document 7. The Bible: The Abominations of Leviticus -- Document 8. The Bible: Ruth and Naomi -- Document 9. The Bible: David and Jonathan -- Document 10. The Bible: Jesus -- Document 11. The Bible: Paul -- Document 12. Spaniards' Suppression of Sodomites (1519-1540s) -- Document 13. Virginia Sodomy Law (1610) -- Document 14. The Execution of Richard Cornish (1624-1625) -- Document 15. William Plaine Executed in New England for Teaching Masturbation (1646) -- Document 16. African American Jan Creoli Killed and Burned in Dutch Colony (1646) -- Document 17. Sara Norman and Mary Hammon Accused of Lewd Behavior (1649) -- Document 18. New Haven Law Prohibits Lesbianism (1655) -- Document 19. Puritan Sermon on The Cry of Sodom (1674) -- Document 20. Pirates in the Caribbean (1724) -- Document 21. Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) -- Document 22. Spanish Priests Condemn Transgendered Yuma Indians (1775) -- Document 23. Spanish Colonial Suppression of Sodomites in California (1775-1777) -- Pt. II. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Development of a Homophile Identity in the United States, 1775-1950 -- Document 24. United States Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Document 25. United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791) -- Document 26. Bachelor Friendships of the Nineteenth Century -- Document 27. National Women's Rights Convention (1852) -- Document 28. Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Poetry of Democracy (1860) -- Document 29. Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) -- Document 30. Walt Whitman's Democratic Vista (1870) -- Document 31. Females Passing as Men (1894) -- Document 32. Anthony Comstock Seeks to Imprison Inverts (1900) -- Document 33. United States Navy Entraps Homosexuals (1919) -- Document 34. Society for Human Rights (1924) -- Document 35. The Well of Loneliness (1929) -- Document 36. Sigmund Freud On Homosexuality (1935) -- Document 37. Lesbian Challenges Georgia's Sodomy Law (1939) -- Document 38. Lesbians in the Women's Army Corps (1945) -- Document 39. Psychiatrists Oppose Homosexual Rights Laws (1945) -- Document 40. Vice Versa, America's First Lesbian Magazine (1947) -- Document 41. Vice Versa Predictions (1947) -- Document 42. Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts (1950) -- Pt. III. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States, 1950-1977 -- Document 43. Formation of the Mattachine Society (1950) -- Document 44. Mattachine Society Meetings (1950) -- Document 45. Mattachine Protests Police Entrapment (1952) -- Document 46. Formation of ONE, Inc. (1952) -- Document 47. Jim Kepner's First Mattachine Meeting (1953) -- Document 48. Tampa Lesbian Bar Raid (1953) -- Document 49. Daughters of Bilitis (1955) -- Document 50. Founding of ONE Institute of Homophile Studies (1956) -- Document 51. Gay Bashing in Massachusetts (1956) -- Document 52. Allen Ginsberg and the Beatniks (1956) -- Document 53. Crittenden Report on Homosexuality in the United States Navy (1957) -- Document 54. Evelyn Hooker Psychological Research (1957) -- Document 55. Supreme Court Rules ONE Is Not Obscene (1958) -- Document 56. Mattachine National Convention (1959) -- Document 57. A Homosexual Bill of Rights (1961) -- Document 58. Jose Sarria Runs for San Francisco City Council (1961) -- Document 59. ACLU Begins Gay Rights Cases (1963) -- Document 60. Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington (1963) -- Document 61. Mohave Indian Two-Spirit Person (1964) -- Document 62. Frank Kameny Resists Job Firing (1964) -- Document 63. Mattachine Pickets the White House (1965) -- Document 64. San Francisco Activism (1965) -- Document 65. Lesbian Activism and The Ladder (1966) -- Document 66. Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny Push the Pentagon (1966) -- Document 67. Supreme Court Excludes and Deports Homosexual Immigrants (1967) -- Document 68. PRIDE and The Advocate Magazine (1967) -- Document 69. Rev. Troy Perry Founds the Metropolitan Community Church (1968) -- Document 70. Homophile Action League (1968) -- Document 71. A Gay Manifesto (1969) -- Document 72. Stonewall Riots in New York (1969) -- Document 73. Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance (1970) -- Document 74. Gay Lib Zaps Psychologists (1970) -- Document 75. Congress to Unite Women (1970) -- Document 76. The Woman Identified Woman (1970) -- Document 77. NOW Endorses Lesbian Rights (1971) -- Document 78. Lesbian Nation (1972) -- Document 79. Democratic Party Convention (1972) -- Document 80. Multiple Struggles (1973) -- Document 81. Dr. Howard Brown Comes Out (1973) -- Document 82. National Gay Task Force Founded (1973) -- Document 83. Lambda Legal Defense Fund (1973) -- Document 84. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (1973) -- Document 85. American Psychiatric Association Vote (1974) -- Document 86. Lesbian Child Custody Rights (1974) -- Document 87. Lesbians as the Vanguard of Feminism (1975) -- Document 88. Gay Asians (1975) -- Document 89. Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles (1976) -- Pt. IV. Backlash: The Reaction to Gay and Lesbian Progress in the United States, 1977-1987 -- Document 90. Anita Bryant Defeats Miami Gay Rights Ordinance (1977) -- Document 91. Gay Men Harm Society (1978) -- Document 92. Mormon Suppression of Homosexuality (1978) -- Document 93. Harvey Milk on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1978) -- Document 94. Gay Is Not Good (1979) -- Document 95. Homosexuality Is Unnatural (1979) -- Document 96. March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979) -- Document 97. Asian American Lesbian Speaks at the Third World Lesbian/Gay Conference (1979) -- Document 98. A Gay Priest Speaks Out on Fundamentalists (1980) -- Document 99. Anita Bryant's Startling Reversal (1980) -- Document 100. Democratic Party and Gay Rights (1980) -- Document 101. Congressman Bauman on Opposition to Gay Rights (1980) -- Document 102. AIDS Strikes Gay Men (1981) -- Document 103. Jerry Falwell Fund-Raising Letter (1981) -- Document 104. Pope John Paul II on Controlling the Body (1981) -- Document 105. Wisconsin Antidiscrimination Law (1981) -- Document 106. Violence against Lesbian (1982) -- Document 107. Merle Woo Challenges the University of California (1982) -- Document 108. Simultaneity of Oppression (1983) -- Document 109. Lesbians of Color Conference (1983) -- Document 110. Police Abuse against Gays (1983) -- Document 111. The Death of Charlie Howard (1984) -- Document 112. Are Gay Rights Right? (1985) -- Document 113. Armistead Maupin's "Design for Living" (1985) -- Document 114. AIDS and Gay Rights (1986) -- Document 115. Bowers v. Hardwick Sodomy Law Case (1986) -- Document 116. Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality (1986) -- Document 117. Homophobia in the Black Community (1986) -- Document 118. Antigay Violence (1987) -- Document 119. AIDS as God's Punishment (1987) -- Pt. V. Queer America: The Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the United States, 1987-2000 -- Document 120. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) (1987) -- Document 121. National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1987) -- Document 122. Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (1987) -- Document 123. Randy Burns - Gay American Indians (1988) -- Document 124. AIDS Should Not Prevent Sexual Pleasure (1988) -- Document 125. National Coming Out Day (1988) -- Document 126. Congressman William Dannemeyer Opposes Gay Rights (1989) -- Document 127. Jewish Rabbi Acceptance of Gay and Lesbian Rights (1989) -- Document 128. Queer Nation (1990) -- Document 129. Bisexuals and Gay Rights (1991) -- Document 130. Gays in the Republican Party (1991) -- Document 131. Democratic Party Progay Rights (1992) -- Document 132. Kentucky v. Wasson (1992) -- Document 133. Colorado Amendment 2 (1992)
- Document 134. Oregon Measure 9 (1992) -- Document 135. Lesbian Appointed to Federal Government (1993) -- Document 136. Lesbians and Gay Men in the Military (1993) -- Document 137. Military Working Group on Homosexuality (1993) -- Document 138. Barry Goldwater on Gays in the Military (1993) -- Document 139. Hawai'i Same-Sex Marriage Court Case (1993) -- Document 140. March on Washington (1993) -- Document 141. Deaf, Black, and Gay: Comparative Rights (1993) -- Document 142. Impact of Gays on the Media (1994) -- Document 143. PFLAG Supports Gay and Lesbian Children (1994) -- Document 144. Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality (1994) -- Document 145. Ex-Gays Condemn Gay Rights (1994) -- Document 146. Bisexual Young Woman Speaks Out (1994) -- Document 147. Sharon Bottoms Child Custody Court Case (1994) -- Document 148. Japanese American Citizens League Supports Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage (1994) -- Document 149. Lesbianas Unidas (1994) -- Document 150. Exposing the Religious Rights (1995) -- Document 151. The Lesbian Avengers (1995) -- Document 152. Brandon Teena Murder Trial (1996) -- Document 153. Romer v. Evans (1996) -- Document 154. Defense of Marriage Act (1996) -- Document 155. Galluccio-Holden Adoption Lawsuit (1997) -- Document 156. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (1997) -- Document 157. Internet Publication for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1997) -- Document 158. Intersex Society of North America (1997) -- Document 159. Transgender Liberation (1998) -- Document 160. Southern Baptist Convention Condemns Homosexuality (1998) -- Document 161. Focus on the Family (1998) -- Document 162. Hawai'i Voters Reject Same-Sex Marriage (1998) -- Document 163. Mrs. Shepard Speaks in Support of Hate Crimes Laws (1998) -- Document 164. Hate Crimes Laws Won't Stop Hate (1998) -- Document 165. Coming Out (1998) -- Document 166. Cyberactivism (1999) -- Document 167. Stan Baker v. State of Vermont (1999) -- Document 168. Overturning State Sodomy Laws (1999) -- Document 169. Dale v. Boy Scouts of America (1999) -- Document 170. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) -- Document 171. Transgender Rights and the ACLU (2000) -- Document 172. Laura Schlessinger Radio Show (2000) -- Document 173. Suicide of a Gay Mormon (2000) -- Document 174. Antigay Hate Crimes in High Schools (2000) -- Document 175. Millennium March on Washington (2000)
Subjects
- Gay rights -- United States -- History -- Sources.
- Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- Sources.
- Homosexuality -- United States -- Public opinion.
- Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- United States.
- Public opinion -- United States.
- United States -- Politics and government.
- United States -- Social policy.