The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York
'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-95799-1
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28th September 2007
- Pages: 332
About the Book
Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. 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 gay liberation in NYC in 1969 to just after its dissolution and the rise of identity politics by 1975. Cohen examines how gay liberation -- with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance -- shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prior to Gay Liberation
Chapter 2: Ideology and Practice
Chapter 3: Gay Liberation Shapes Youth Activism
Chapter 4: Gay Youth (GY) Chapter 5: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) Chapter 6: Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School Appendix A: Gay Liberation Youth Groups - 1966 to 1975
Appendix B: GAA Petition to Councilwoman Carol Greitzer
Appendix C: "IN A WORLD OF DARKNESS"
Appendix D: S.T.A.R. Activism Appendix E: GAA-Initiated Intro 475 Fall, 1971 Hearings Broach Transgender Concerns Appendix F: 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day
Appendix G: Chronology of George Washington High School News Coverage
Archives
Bibliography