The Gay Revolution, Lillian Faderman
The Gay Revolution, Lillian Faderman
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The Gay Revolution
The Story of the Struggle

Author: Lillian Faderman

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 29 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/13/2015

Synopsis

The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth, and intricacies that only an award-winning activist, scholar, and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke.

The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s, the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties, the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic, and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.

About Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. Among her many honors are six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, and several lifetime achievement awards for scholarship. She is the author of the New York Times Notable Books Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carey on December 26, 2016

The Gay Revolution was interesting and informative enough, but definitely overbloated, and for no particularly good reason. The title would also more appropriately be “The Gay Assimilation” because it only clearly and thoroughly represents the narratives of wealthy white assimilationist gay and lesb......more

Goodreads review by V. on October 21, 2015

Most attempts to narrate a history of LGBT activism in the United States might be thwarted not only by the movement's lack of a single, galvanizing historical figure around whom to base it—a Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, or a Susan B. Anthony—but also by a general disorganization born of the......more

Goodreads review by Isabelle on February 10, 2025

Hittills en av de bästa böckerna som jag har läst om queerhet genom historien och queeras rättigheter. Rekommenderas!......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on March 03, 2021

Truly phenomenal. I'm horrified at how little I knew, and how much there still is to learn. I'll be buying a physical copy of this book to reread for sure.......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 07, 2017

In the interest of brevity, The Gay Revolution documents the separate threads of the radical versus incrementalist sects of the gay civil rights movement with an exhaustive acuity and yet with a certain breeziness. As a sort of epic survey that unites these separate chapters of the movement, it's as......more

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