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Smash the church, smash the state! : the early years of gay liberation /

Forty years after Stonewall, a look at the origins and influences of the Gay Liberation movement.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mecca, Tommi Avicolli (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, California : City Lights Books, [2009]
Subjects:
Gay liberation movement > United States > History.
Gay liberation movement.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Out of the Bars and Into the Streets
  • Militant Foreshadowings / Susan Stryker 3
  • Eighth Grade Epiphany / Kenneth Laverne Bunch 11
  • Kiyoshi Kuromiya: Intergrating the Issues / Liz Highleyman 17
  • A Consciousness Raised / Hal Tarr 22
  • Coming Out and into the GLF: Banned No More in Boston / John Kyper 31
  • My Adventures as a Gay Teacher / Tom Ammiano 40
  • Pre-Now / James C. Roberts 43
  • My Memories as a Gay Militant in NYC / Nestor Latronico 48
  • From the Closets of New Haven to the Collectives of New York GLF / Jason Serinus 55
  • Even Iowa Homos Got the Blues / Dennis Brumm 62
  • There's a Certain Kind of Woman / Mara Math 68
  • A Poem / Fran Winant 74
  • Tuning In
  • No Girl in My Soup / Thom Nickels 79
  • Coming Out as a Reluctant Activist in a Gay Maoist Cell who Mostly Just Wanted to Get Laid / Mark Freeman 85
  • Our Passion Shook the World / Martha Shelley 93
  • Sylvester: A Singer Without a Closet 97
  • Living Lesbian Nation / Victoria Brownworth 99
  • Radical Spirit and Vision / John Lauritsen 108
  • Radicalqueens Manifesto #1 113
  • Radicalqueens Manifesto #2 114
  • The Radicalqueens Trans-Formation / Cei Bell 116
  • A Woman of Vision / Pat Parker 125
  • Sisters and Brothers: A Writer Hungering for Family Finds GLF / Perry Brass 127
  • Dyketactics!: Electrifying the Imaginations of the Gay and Women's Communities / Barbara Ruth 137
  • A Life of Seeing Connections / Simeon White 147
  • Fopping It Up: Former Cockette Rumi's Story Interview with / Rumi Missabu 150
  • Gay Raiders / Mark Segal 156
  • Revolution Around Every Corner
  • Between Bohemia and Revolution / Flavia Rando 163
  • Gay Liberation Front: Report from London / Richard Bolingbroke 168
  • Sylvia Rivera: A Woman Before Her Time / Liz Highleyman 172
  • Two Songs / Blackberri 177
  • Honey, We Unshrunk the Shrinks! / Pam Mitchell 182
  • The Radicalesbian Story: An Evolution of Consciousness / Ellen Shumsky 190
  • The Woman Identified Woman Manifesto 197
  • Berkeley & the Fight for an Effeminist, Socially Transformative Gay Identity / Nick Benton 203
  • Two Poems / Dajenya 210
  • The Effeminist Moment / Steven F. Dansky 213
  • Dyketactics!: Notes Toward an Un-Silencing / Paola Bacchetta 218
  • Two Poems / Barbara Ruth 232
  • The Baltic Street Collective / N.A. Diaman 234
  • Gay Pagans and Atheists Manifesto 242
  • 40 Years After Stonewall
  • Looking Back from the Mexico-U.S. Border / Roberto Camp 249
  • A Letter from Huey Newton to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters about the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements 252
  • Making History / Sidney Brinkley 255
  • New York City Legend / Marsha P. Johnson 261
  • Lessons from the ENDA Mess / Doug Ireland 263
  • Happy to Be Childless / Allen Young 269
  • The Gay Community in Crisis / Don Kilhefner 273
  • Stonewall Was a Riot
  • Now We Need a Revolution / Merle Woo 282
  • Gay Liberation Media 295.