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Becoming visible : a reader in gay & lesbian history for high school & college students / Kevin Jennings, editor.

Jennings, Kevin, 1963- (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 1555832547 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 297 p. : 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Boston : Alyson Publications, 1994.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297).
Formatted Contents Note: pt. 1. Homosexuals before "homosexuality" : looking at "gay" people in pre-modern societies -- ch. 1. Understanding heterosexism and homophobia -- ch. 2. The Greco-Roman world : acceptance and assimilation-- ch. 3. Love of the "cut sleeve" in ancient China -- ch. 4. The celebration of difference : the institution of the Berdache among Native Americans -- ch. 5. "Passing women" in early modern America -- ch. 6. "Hidden from history" : understanding the lives of gay and lesbian individuals from the past -- pt. 2. The emergence of the modern gay movement -- ch. 7. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and the beginnings of gay consciousness -- ch. 8. Gays and the Holocaust -- ch. 9. World War II and a "new minority" in the United States -- ch. 10. McCarthyism and the witch-hunt mentality -- ch. 11. Harry Hay and the beginnings of the homophile movement -- ch. 12. Before Stonewall : portraits of lesbian and gay lives before gay liberation -- ch. 13. Stonewall and the dawning of a new day -- pt. 3. The ongoing struggle : gays and lesbians in the eighties and nineties -- ch. 14. Changing times, changing demands : a collection of manifestoes and platforms, 1865-1993 -- ch. 15. Bowers v. Hardwick and the "right to be let alone" -- ch. 16. "Gays around the globe : portraits of lesbian and gay life in other nations -- ch. 17. Gay and lesbian youth : voices from the next generation.
Subject: Gays > History.

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