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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: deviant's war
    sub title: the homosexual vs. the United States of America
  title info:
    title: The deviant's war
    sub title: the homosexual versus the United States of America
  title info:
    title: Homosexual vs. the United States of America
  title info:
    title: Homosexual versus the United States of America
  name:
    name part: Cervini, Eric
    name part: 1992-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 494 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "A biography of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny. From a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads, of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress, of FBI informants, murder, betrayal, sex, love and ultimately victory" --Provided by publisher.
  abstract: In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: The astronomer -- The letter -- The panic -- The union -- The Mattachine -- The Bureau -- The crusader -- The alliance -- The congressman -- The march -- The bouquet -- The picket -- The student -- The illustrator -- The floor plan -- The chaos -- The riots -- The liberation -- The pride -- The candidate -- Epilogue: the White House.
  note: Eric Cervini.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [391]-476) and index (pages [477]-494).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kameny, Frank
      name part: 1925-2011
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gay rights
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
  classification: HQ75.8.K35 C47 2020
  classification: 306.76/6092 B
  identifier: 9780374139797
  identifier: 0374139792
  identifier: 2020003415
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200410
    record change date: 20250319155809.7
    record identifier: in00004375290