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Letters to One : gay and lesbian voices from the 1950s and 1960s /
"Long before the Stonewall riots, One magazine -- the first openly gay magazine in the United States -- offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Long before the Stonewall riots, One magazine -- the first openly gay magazine in the United States -- offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book is a collection of letters written to the magazine, a small number of which were published in One, but most of them were not. The letters candidly explore issues such as police harassment of gay and lesbian communities, antigay job purges, and the philosophical, scientific, and religious meanings of homosexuality"--Page 4 of cover |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1438442998 9781438442990 |