Behind the mask of the Mattachine : the Hal Call chronicles and the early movement for homosexual emancipation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sears, James T. (James Thomas), 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harrington Park Press, [2006]
Series:	Haworth gay & lesbian studies.
Subjects:	Call, Hal, > -2000. Mattachine Society > History. Gay activists > United States > Biography. Gay liberation movement > United States > History. Mattachine Society. Gay activists. Gay liberation movement. United States. Homophile movement Gay culture - Pre-Stonewall California Gay journalist Gays and censorship Gays and the law Homosexual emancipation Gay history - modern America Gay literature - biography Gay activism Mattachine Society Biographies. History.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Logos, eros, and psyche
1: Relationships. Who was Hal Call? ; The final visit ; In a dream ; Q & A
2: Foundations. German roots ; Boyhood ; Egos and eros ; Making contacts ; Three-cornered conversation ; War buddies ; The Fifth Order ; Letters home ; Coming out
3: Mattachine (1950-1953). Organizing in the Bay Area ; Cracks in the foundation ; Conventional wisdom ; Chuck and Gerry ; Conflict across the Bay ; On the edge of midnight ; The "unravelment of dreams" ; Q & A II ; Mattachine melee ; Gerry's farewell ; Moments in time
4: Sexualities. 1973: Theater of the absurd ; 1964-1965: Our man Flint ; 1954: Pan-Graphic ; 1985: Sexual rebels ; 2000: Harold and Hal ; 1956: Fear and respectability ; 1957: Game of fools ; January 28, 1958: Hal's turn ; 1958: Bitchery-butchery ; 1959: Calling shots, dispelling darkness, going public ; 2006: A candid conversation across gay generations ; 1960: Verboten ; 1960: A house divided ; 1961: The rejected ; 1967: The furtive fraternity ; The mask of desire.