The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America - Couverture souple

Cervini, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250798507 ISBN 13 : 9781250798503

Editeur : Picador, 2021

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES <\/i>BEST SELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW <\/i>EDITORS\x27 CHOICE. One of The Washington Post<\/i>\x27s Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. <\/b> From a young Harvard\- and Cambridge\-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.<\/b> In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini\x27s The Deviant\x27s War <\/i>unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.<\/p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<b>Eric Cervini</b> is an award-winning historian of LGBTQ+ culture and politics. He graduated <i>summa cum laude</i> from Harvard College and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. <i>The Deviant's War </i>is his first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250798507
• ISBN 13: 9781250798503
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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