Stephan Cohen

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York

'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail'

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups -- Gay Youth (GY), Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and the Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School (GWHS) -- from the advent of gay liberation in NYC in 1969 to just after its dissolution and the rise of identity politics by 1975. Cohen examines how gay liberation -- with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance -- shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415802451
• ISBN-10: 0415802458
• Artikelnr.: 31082420

Autorenporträt

Stephan Cohen received his PhD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is an Assistant Professor at Lesley College.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prior to Gay Liberation
Chapter 2: Ideology and Practice
Chapter 3: Gay Liberation Shapes Youth Activism
Chapter 4: Gay Youth (GY)
Chapter 5: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.)
Chapter 6: Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School
Appendix A: Gay Liberation Youth Groups - 1966 to 1975
Appendix B: GAA Petition to Councilwoman Carol Greitzer
Appendix C: "IN A WORLD OF DARKNESS"
Appendix D: S.T.A.R. Activism
Appendix E: GAA-Initiated Intro 475 Fall, 1971 Hearings Broach Transgender
Concerns
Appendix F: 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day
Appendix G: Chronology of George Washington High School News Coverage
Archives
Bibliography