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Gay Seattle : stories of exile and belonging /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atkins, Gary, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Gays > Washington (State) > Seattle > Social conditions.
Gay rights > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
Gay liberation movement > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
AIDS (Disease) > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
AIDS (Disease)
Gay liberation movement.
Gay rights.
Gays > Social conditions.
Washington (State) > Seattle.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The law: sodomy on the mudflat
  • Mental health: the psychiatric pick
  • New saloons and vaudeville
  • Stirrings of resistance
  • Is dance the enemy?
  • Crossing over: challenging the police
  • Robert's rules and gay liberation
  • Chautauquas of feminism and lesbianism
  • Pulpits for healing
  • At the dance: a new leg
  • Confronting a police crackdown
  • Insiders at city hall: the rhetoric of privacy
  • At the capitol: limited conversation
  • Initiative thirteen: coming together, learning to persuade
  • On broadway: creating markets and parades
  • On catholic hill: the clash of dogma and ministry
  • At the hospital: a plague arrives
  • Becoming compassion
  • Cal's conscience.