Making Gay History

Résumé du livre

"Covering the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Making Gay History describes how the research and writing of LGBTQ history developed across these decades. It began very much as an activist endeavor, a resource to be used by the LGBTQ movement to inform its activism and to inspire the community. Part One covers the years in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s, when John D'Emilio embarked on this work; the social and activist networks that he developed; and the struggles he encountered to support himself. Part Two shifts to Greensboro, North Carolina in the 1980s and early 1990s and describes the experience of being an out-of-the-closet faculty member at UNC-Greensboro and the way this identity impacted his teaching and influence upon his students. Part Three covers the second half of the 1990s and describes working for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and creating its Policy Institute. Throughout the book, D'Emilio describes his continuing research, writing and public lecturing on a variety of topics related to LGBTQ history, social movements and the history of sexuality, including a biography of peace and racial justice activist Bayard Rustin"-- Provided by publisher.