Gay And Lesbian Issues
Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook traces the developments, people, and organizations responsible for bringing homosexual issues to the public's attention. In addition to exploring such controversial issues as gays in the military and child adoption, this title discusses court decisions, pivotal events, and key individuals like Magnus Hirschfeld, Radclyffe Hall, and Harvey Milk, the San Francisco town supervisor who along with Mayor George Moscone was murdered by ex-supervisor Dan...
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Explores the contentious history of the international gay rights movement from its inception in Germany in the 1800s to today.\\ School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-Information on the history of the gay rights movement, discrimination, hate crimes, family and legal issues, and various professional organizations can be found in this thoroughly researched and comprehensive reference work. All of the material is easily located through the excellent index and table of contents. Each chapter concludes with a list of references, and sources are clearly cited. "Selected Print and Nonprint Resources" includes lists of bookstores, periodicals, publishers, and videos. Surprisingly, the exhaustive list of books does not include fiction titles. Overall, though, Gay and Lesbian Issues may prove to be the benchmark reference source on this subject.-Robert Gray, East Central Regional Library, Cambridge, MN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\\
Preface and Acknowledgments1History of the Gay Rights Movement12Problems, Controversies, and Solutions333Chronology734Biographical Sketches1295Documents, Cases, Laws, and Quotations1756Directory of National and International Organizations and Associations2277Selected Print and Nonprint Resources277Glossary375Index381About the Author403\\
\ School Library JournalGr 9 Up-Information on the history of the gay rights movement, discrimination, hate crimes, family and legal issues, and various professional organizations can be found in this thoroughly researched and comprehensive reference work. All of the material is easily located through the excellent index and table of contents. Each chapter concludes with a list of references, and sources are clearly cited. "Selected Print and Nonprint Resources" includes lists of bookstores, periodicals, publishers, and videos. Surprisingly, the exhaustive list of books does not include fiction titles. Overall, though, Gay and Lesbian Issues may prove to be the benchmark reference source on this subject.-Robert Gray, East Central Regional Library, Cambridge, MN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\\\ \
