Law and the Gay Rights Story : The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy /

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"Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was again...

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Main Author: Frank, Walter M., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Homosexuality > Law and legislation.
Gay rights.
Gay liberation movement.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Émeutes de Stonewall, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Homosexuels > Droits > États-Unis > Histoire.
Gay liberation movement > United States > History.
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Gay rights > United States > History.
Homosexuality > Law and legislation > United States > History.
United States.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Isolation, oppression, and emergence (1945-1969)
  • Stonewall (1969)
  • Invisible no longer (1969-1981)
  • The AIDS crisis and its legacy (1981-92)
  • Three key developments
  • The debate over gay rights
  • The workplace
  • Freedom from violence; freedom to serve
  • The public school struggle
  • The gay family
  • The movement's critics
  • The state constitutional battles
  • The Supreme Court confronts same sex marriage.

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