The Many Faces of Gay: Activists Who Are Changing the Nation
A comprehensive exploration of the gay experience, this book depicts in rich detail the coming out experiences of some sixty lesbians and gay men. The interviewees are of varied ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, and of different ages, educational levels, and vocations; they include people with AIDS, a transvestite and a transsexual, as well as gays who spent years in heterosexual marriages (some subsequently deprived of their children). The second half of the book investigates the...
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A comprehensive exploration of the gay experience, this book depicts in rich detail the coming out experiences of some sixty lesbians and gay men. The interviewees are of varied ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, and of different ages, educational levels, and vocations; they include people with AIDS, a transvestite and a transsexual, as well as gays who spent years in heterosexual marriages (some subsequently deprived of their children). The second half of the book investigates the advanced level of the coming out experience--active participation in the struggle against homophobia--through accounts by gay public officials, leaders of ACT UP, Queer Nation, Pink Panthers. the Hetrick Martin Institute and Harvey Milk School for troubled gay youth, Gay Men's Health Crisis, GOAL (the gay police organization), gay veterans, and the Anti-Violence Project. A chapter is included on the experiences of members of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Booknews Kahn (classics, Colgate U.) retells the coming-out stories of some 66 gay men, lesbians, their friends, and members of their families, including a range of classes, occupations, religions, and races. The two sections describe coming out to the immediate environment and to the larger world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceCh. 1"I'm into Being Gerri Wells"7Ch. 2"What Beautiful Blue Eyes"21Ch. 3Never Unaware of Being Black39Ch. 4The Silence of Machismo55Ch. 5"I Feel Asian!"70Ch. 6The Warning of the Holocaust101Ch. 7Catholic Gays: "Sinful and Evil"?132Ch. 8Gay Bashing: The Extreme "Exclusion"153Ch. 9The New York Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project172Ch. 10Gays and the Criminal Justice System190Ch. 11GOAL: Coming Out as Cops197Ch. 12The Gay Community and the Police216Ch. 13The Hetrick Martin Institute and the Harvey Milk School234Ch. 14The Gay Community and the AIDS Crisis247Ch. 15Gays in the Military264Ch. 16Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)288Ch. 17Problems and Perspectives312Suggestions for Further Reading331Index333
\ BooknewsKahn (classics, Colgate U.) retells the coming-out stories of some 66 gay men, lesbians, their friends, and members of their families, including a range of classes, occupations, religions, and races. The two sections describe coming out to the immediate environment and to the larger world. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
