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Queer exhibition histories / by Hendrikx, Bas,1986-editor,contributor,interviewer.(CARDINAL)884751; Peaches,1968-contributor.(CARDINAL)884318; Anosova, Dar'i͡a(Translator),translator.(CARDINAL)885237; Appiah, Tawanda,contributor,interviewee.(CARDINAL)889042; Betsky, Aaron,contributor.(CARDINAL)266013; Boudry, Pauline,contributor.(CARDINAL)856452; Durmuşoǧlu, Övul Ö.,contributor,interviewer.(CARDINAL)884739; Gajowy, Aleksandra,contributor.; Gysel, Jessica,contributor.(CARDINAL)884543; Hleba, Halyna,contributor.(CARDINAL)884698; Iakovlenko, Kateryna,contributor.; Iancu, Valentina,contributor.(CARDINAL)884463; Kearney, Rían,contributor.; Kivimaa, Katrin,contributor.(CARDINAL)883287; Kovač, Leonida,1962-contributor.(CARDINAL)883229; Kruijswijk, Ĺeon,contributor.; Lebovici, E.(Elisabeth),contributor.(CARDINAL)886327; Lorenz, Renate,contributor.(CARDINAL)856451; Murphy, Amanda,1985-translator.(CARDINAL)883560; Nasr, Edwin,contributor.; Põldsam, Rebeka,contributor.(CARDINAL)883470; Pirak Sikku, Katarina,contributor.; Piron, François,contributor.(CARDINAL)884252; Radziszewski, Karol,1980-contributor.(CARDINAL)873437; Sadzinski, Sylvia,contributor.; Salminen, Sara,contributor.; Triisberg, Airi,contributor.(CARDINAL)884654; Viola, Eugenio,contributor.(CARDINAL)884375; Wegman, Simone,contributor.; Yu, Liang-Kai,contributor.; Boudry/Lorenz,contributor.; Valiz,publisher.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes."Queer Exhibition Histories is composed of case studies, interviews and essays that emphasize different queer exhibitions and their modes of presentation and archiving. Many of these projects were short-lived or were executed between the walls of the private or domestic space, far beyond the scope of any institutional recognition. Therefore, the exhibitions materialized on limited budgets, were hardly documented and received barely any media coverage. For this reason, the legacy of these projects is highly dependent on personal archives, memories and paraphernalia, whereof the entries are not always easy to find. The events were not only artistic, but they could equally be discursive, activist and educational, or serve as a tool for community building. At the intersection of queerness and contemporary art, Queer Exhibition Histories investigates how the efforts of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators have advanced their public presence"--
Subjects: Interviews.; Illustrated works.; Case studies.; Gay artists.; Homosexuality and art.; Lesbian artists.; LGBT activism.; LGBT community centers.; Minorities in art; Minority arts facilities.; Museums and sexual minorities; Queer theory.; 2SLGBTQ+.; Bisexual art.; Bisexual artists.; Gay art.; Lesbian art.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; Queer (Verb); Queer art.; Queer artists.; Queer gaze.; Queer museums.; Transgender art.; Transgender artists.; Two-Spirit art.; Two-Spirit artists.; Sexual minority culture.; Gay artists.; Lesbian artists.; LGBTQ+ community centers.; Queer theory.;
"CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 Part of the contributions in this book are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 International license ... www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "--Page 286.
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Blackward / by Lindell, Lawrence,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)884866;
"Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish BFFs--Lika, Amor, Lala, and Tony--can't find what they need, they take matters into their own hands and create a space where they can be a hundred percent who they are: Black, queer, and weird. The group puts a call out for all awkward Black folks to come on down to the community center to connect. But low attendance and IRL run-ins with trolls of all kinds only rock everybody with anxiety. As our protagonists start to question the merits of their vision, a lifetime of insecurities--about not being good enough or Black enough--bubbles to the surface. Will they find a way to turn it around in time for their radical brainchild, the Blackward Zine Fest?"--Amazon.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Queer comics.; Young adult fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); African Americans; Communities; Friendship; Queer comic books, strips, etc.; Zines; LGBTQ+ people; Friendships.; Queer comics.;
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Awakening : how gays and lesbians brought marriage equality to America / by Frank, Nathaniel,author.(CARDINAL)492933;
The right of same-sex couples to marry provoked decades of intense conflict before it was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Yet some of the most divisive contests shaping the quest for marriage equality occurred not on the culture-war front lines but within the ranks of LGBTQ advocates. Nathaniel Frank tells the dramatic story of how an idea that once seemed unfathomable--and for many gays and lesbians undesirable--became a legal and moral right in just half a century. Awakening begins in the 1950s, when millions of gays and lesbians were afraid to come out, let alone fight for equal treatment. Across the social upheavals of the next two decades, a gay rights movement emerged with the rising awareness that same-sex love is equal to love everywhere. As movement leaders and ordinary gay people created new communities, alliances, and ideas, a tight-knit cadre of (mostly) gay and lesbian lawyers began to focus on legal recognition for same-sex couples, eventually creating a long-term strategy to win marriage rights in the courts. But first they had to win over members of their own LGBTQ community who declined to make marriage a priority, while reining in others who charged ahead heedless of their carefully laid plans, and often at odds with them. All the while, they had to fight against virulent antigay opponents and capture the American center by spreading the simple message that love is love--ultimately propelling the LGBTQ community, and America, immeasurably closer to justice.--Includes bibliographical references and index."Homosexual marriage?": the stirrings of a new idea -- "What was important was that we were a household": gay marriages and the domestic partnership alternative -- "We are criminals in the eyes of the law, and that is used against us": sodomy, AIDS, and new alliances -- "A tectonic shift": earthquake in Hawaii -- "The very foundations of our society are in danger": the defense of marriage -- "Here come the brides": laying the cornerstone in Massachusetts -- "Power to the people": rogue weddings and ballot initiatives -- "A political awakening": California's proposition 8 changes the game -- "Brick by brick": progress in the states -- "Make more snowflakes and eventually there will be an avalanche": the battle over strategy comes to a head -- "Without any rational justification": proposition 8 on trial -- "A risk well worth taking": Edie Windsor and winning marriage in New York -- "The nation is ready for it": a president and a country evolve -- "Love survives death": the Windsor ruling and its aftermath -- "The responsibility to right fundamental wrongs": a circuit split sets up a showdown -- "It is so ordered": marriage equality comes to all fifty states.
Subjects: Same-sex marriage; Gay culture; Gay people; Gay liberation movement; Gay rights; Same-sex marriage.; Gay culture.; Homosexuals.; Gay rights.;
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Queer legacies : stories from Chicago's LGBTQ archives / by D'Emilio, John,author.(CARDINAL)143742; Gerber/Hart Library and Archives.(CARDINAL)850512;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and index.Merle's story -- The struggle for self-acceptance : the Life of George Buse -- Renee Hanover : always a radical -- Max Smith : A gay liberationist at heart -- The gay liberation era in Chicago -- A queer radical's Story : Step May and Chicago Gay Liberation -- The Transvestite Legal Committee -- A national network under the radar : The Transvestite Information Service -- A mother to her family : the life of Robinn Dupree -- Controversy on campus : Northwestern University and Garrett Theological Seminary -- Activist Catholics : Dignity's work in the 1970s and 1980s -- Dennis Halan and the story of Chicago's "Gay Mass" -- Moving forward with Integrity -- Lutherans Concerned : a continuing struggle -- Running for office : the campaign of Gary Nepon -- Ten years after Stonewall : The police are still attacking us -- Trying to work together : The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Metropolitan Chicago -- Knowledge Is power: Chicago's Gay Academic Union -- Sexual orientation and the law -- A lesbian community center in Chicago -- The Artemis Singers and the power of music -- Printing our way to freedom: The Metis Press -- Picturing lesbian history : the passion of Janet Soule -- Lesbian Chicago : striving for visibility -- We are family : The birth of Amigas Latinas -- Our legacy lives on : Amigas Latinas as an activist force -- Challenging a color line : Black and White Men Together -- Chicago mobilizes to march on Washington -- Confronting AIDS : The response of Black and White Men Together -- The rise of bisexual activism -- Impact '88 : becoming a force in electoral politics -- Facing of with the media: The work of GLAAD-Chicago -- Building community : Peg Grey and the power of sports -- Fighting the military ban : James Darby and the effort to mobilize veterans -- The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS -- A community fights AIDS : The work of BEHIV -- Making schools safe -- We will not stay quiet : The 85% Coalition."There is no single archive of gay life in Chicago. But since 1981, the Gerbert-Hart Library and Archives has been collecting records of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified individuals and organizations. In this book, legendary scholar John D'Emilio draws on those archives to illuminate the scope of people and groups that literally made history. These include publishers, lawyers, athletes, artists, performers, transvestites, bisexuals, and Latinx organizers, to name a few overlapping constituencies. They also include institutions like Dignity, long the primary organization giving voice to LGBTQ Catholics, as well as the Gay Academic Union. In that last case, D'Emilio takes the first steps toward a full history of how scholarly research, writing, and teaching developed and how a visible LGBTQ presence became institutionalized in American higher education. D'Emilio's casual and enthusiastic essays range from politics to culture, from social life to institutions. And though the milieu is Chicago, many of the essays reach beyond to illuminate national events. Overall, this is a kaleidoscopic look at the diverse flavors of organizing and community-making that have been pursued by gay men and women over the decades"--
Subjects: Gay people; Sexual minority community; Gay people; Gay liberation movement; Homosexuals.;
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Pacifico Silano : the eyelid has its storms ... by Silano, Pacifico,1986-photographer.(CARDINAL)855865; Lavalette, Shane,1987-writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)783613; Light Work (Organization : Syracuse, N.Y.),organizer,host institution,publisher.(CARDINAL)188261; Robert B. Menschel Media Center,host institution.(CARDINAL)313642;
"Pacifico Silano's The Eyelid Has Its Storms ... borrows its title from a Frank O'Hara poem. O'Hara's musings and observations about everyday queer life inspired Silano's artistic practice. 'The eyelid has its storms, ' the poem begins. 'There is the opaque fish-scale green of it after swimming in the sea and then suddenly wrenching violence, strangled lashed, and a barbed wire of sand falls onto the shore.' O'Hara's deeply visual poem, like Silano's work, evokes duality--in memory, in the present, and future, shimmering beauty and umbral violence often occur at once. Through the appropriation of photographs from vintage gay pornography magazines, Silano creates colorful collages that explore print culture and the histories of the LGBTQ+ community. His large-scale works evoke strength and sexuality while acknowledging the underlying repression and trauma that marginalized individuals experience. Born at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Silano lost his uncle due to complications from HIV. 'After he died, ' says Silano, 'his memory was erased by my family due to the shame of his sexuality and the stigma of HIV/AIDS around that time period.' Silano set out to create art that reconciled that loss and erasure. Silano's exhibition somberly contemplates such pain and photography's role in the struggle for queer visibility, while celebrating enduring love, compassion, and community. In collaging, Silano decisively fragments, obscures, and layers images that he has rephotographed from these magazines. He reassembles and ultimately recontextualizes these images, removing the overtly explicit original content. 'These new pictures-within-pictures are silent witnesses that allude to absence and presence, ' says Silano. He sees them as stand-in memorials, both for the now-missing models as well as those who originally consumed their images. Silano meditates on the meaning of the images and tearsheets that he collects over time. What continually excites him is precisely the 'slipperiness' of representation and meaning in photography as our culture shifts. 'The lens that we read [images] through today gives them new context and meaning, ' he observes. 'In another 30 or 40 years, they might very well mean something completely different'"--Light Work description online at source URL: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/pacifico-silano-the-eyelid-has-its-storms
Subjects: Silano, Pacifico, 1986-; Gay erotic photography; Gay men in art; Loss (Psychology) in art; Photocollage;
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Making room : three decades of fighting for beds, belonging, and a safe place for LGBTQ youth / by Siciliano, Carl,author.(CARDINAL)895165;
"Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney-a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life-in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and driven from home, Forney was the heart of the community, known for infectious laughter, fierce loyalty to friends, and an unshakeable faith that "my God will love me for who I am." Then Forney was murdered, a moment of horror and devastation that exposed the brutality that teenagers like Forney faced in a city marked by gentrification, housing insecurity, and the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic. Motivated by Forney's spirit, Siciliano fought to create a home where unhoused teens could live and feel loved-bolstered by his own exclusion from the church as a gay Catholic man. This is Siciliano's story of mending hearts broken by displacement and rejection, including his own. Siciliano shares what he learned from Forney and thousands of other queer teens-wounded, brave, vibrant people who lived true to their inner experiences and created family under desperate circumstances-while he helped lead a movement that compelled New York City to invest millions of dollars in kids who'd been ignored for decades. Written with heart and profound insight, Making Room is a landmark personal narrative, bringing to life an untold chapter of LGBTQ history and testifying to the power of community, solidarity, and the human spirit"--
Subjects: Siciliano, Carl.; Forney, Ali.; Sexual minorities; Homeless persons; Murder victims; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
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Real impact : the new economics of social change / by Simon, Morgan,author.(CARDINAL)416205; Nation Institute (U.S.),issuing body.(CARDINAL)532072;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.Introduction: Getting real -- The limits of charity -- Economic activism and impact investment -- The limitations of impact investment -- Scaling smart -- How to get it right -- Engaging communities -- Adding more value than you extract -- Balancing risk and return -- Maximizing impact -- Real impact at scale -- What you can do -- Conclusion: Asking questions."Impact investment, the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return, has become a hot topic in the world's philanthropy and development circles, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential. Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it just replicate the same failures that have plagued the aid and antipoverty industry? Enter Morgan Simon. When she was a twenty-year-old college student at Swarthmore, Simon compelled Lockheed Martin to change their LGBTQ policies by convincing her college to stop investing in the firm. And that was just the beginning. With passion and counterintuitive arguments, Simon shows how impact investing can make real change. But she also illustrates how easy it is to make mistakes, showing how wind farms can lead to land grabs, and how short-term thinking by well-meaning investors can actually lead to more oppression and hardship in the communities they are trying to help. Impact investing, Simon argues, is making the same mistakes the aid industry has been making for years. But there are ways to invest and have real impact: by making sure the communities are involved in the decision-making and ownership of the project, that investors are adding more value than they extract, and that the risk and returns are balanced between the investors and the communities. As an activist, and as a trusted leader in the field, Simon argues that we can work within the system and use capital to effect change. Centered around real, on-the-ground case studies from her decades of investment analysis and offering clear strategies that are proven to work, this book is a clarion call for more effective, socially conscious investing"--"A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing--investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change. Impact investment, the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return, has become a hot topic in the world's philanthropy and development circles, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential. Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it just replicate the same failures that have plagued the aid and antipoverty industry? Enter Morgan Simon. When she was a twenty-year-old college student at Swarthmore, Simon compelled Lockheed Martin to change their LGBTQ policies by convincing her college to stop investing in the firm. And that was just the beginning. With passion and counterintuitive arguments, Simon shows how impact investing can make real change. But she also illustrates how easy it is to make mistakes, showing how wind farms can lead to land grabs, and how short-term thinking by well-meaning investors can actually lead to more oppression and hardship in the communities they are trying to help. Impact investing, Simon argues, is making the same mistakes the aid industry has been making for years. But there are ways to invest and have real impact: the risk and returns are balanced between the investors and the communities. Centered around real, on-the-ground case studies from her decades of investment analysis and offering clear strategies that are proven to work, this book is a clarion call for more effective, socially conscious investing"--
Subjects: Charities.; Investments, Foreign; Economic development.; Social responsibility of business.; Social change.;
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Lyle Ashton Harris : today I shall judge nothing that occurs : selections from the Ektachrome archive / by Harris, Lyle Ashton,1965-artist,photographer.(CARDINAL)884226; Aletti, Vince,contributor.(CARDINAL)682375; Attille, Martina,contributor.(CARDINAL)884280; Baer, Ulrich,contributor.(CARDINAL)680746; Bordowitz, Gregg,contributor.(CARDINAL)873201; Burton, Johanna,contributor.(CARDINAL)279934; Edwards, Adrienne(Art critic),contributor.(CARDINAL)782756; Gaines, Malik,contributor.(CARDINAL)855605; Gallun, Lucy,contributor.(CARDINAL)565504; Harris, Thomas Allen,contributor.(CARDINAL)884387; Johnson, Rashid,1977-contributor.(CARDINAL)353066; Lax, Thomas J.,contributor.(CARDINAL)855500; Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth,1979-contributor.(CARDINAL)281757; Lin, Parissah,contributor.; Lord, Catherine,1949-contributor.(CARDINAL)856456; Marconi, Roxana,contributor.; Newkirk, Pamela,contributor.(CARDINAL)704298; Otis, Clarence,Jr.,contributor.; Reid-Pharr, Robert,1965-contributor.(CARDINAL)278720; Storr, Robert,contributor.(CARDINAL)183035; Thomas, Mickalene,1971-contributor.(CARDINAL)316691; Udé, Iké,contributor.(CARDINAL)884233; Aperture Foundation,publisher.(CARDINAL)195492;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged in cities across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, the artist's archive of 35 mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections from a host of artistic and cultural figures. It offers a unique document of what Harris has described as "ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and '90s, against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization." As a young artist experimenting with installation, performance, and collage at the time, Harris obsessively photographed his friends, lovers, and individuals who either were, or would become, figures of influence, such as Marlon Riggs, Cornel West, bell hooks, Stuart Hall, Klaus Biesenbach, Nan Goldin, Catherine Opie, Glenn Ligon, and others. The images record the confluence of multiple international communities--gathering points for the exchange of ideas and the development of theoretical positions on art and culture that continue to resonate to this day. Together, these photographs and the journals not only sketch a personal history of a unique time of importance to contemporary art, but also show the development and shaping of Harris's eye and influences as an artist. -- From Publisher's website:Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, including most recently in "Photography's Last Century" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; in "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold Story'' and "Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; in "United by AIDS" at Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; in "Kiss My Genders" at the Haywood Gallery, London; in "Tell Me Your Story" at Kunsthal KaDE, Amersfoort, NL; in "Elements of Vogue" at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (traveled to Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City). Harris's work was included in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Busan Biennial, South Korea (2008), the Bienal de Ŝo Paulo (2016), the Whitney Biennial (2017), and presented by Ciňma Du Řel at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). Harris is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; P̌rez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contempor̀neo de Castilla y Le̤n, Spain; Migros Museum f|r Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Harris has also presented performances at a range of venues, most recently at Volksb|hne Gr|ner Salon sponsored by KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019); a lecture/performance on Andy Warhol presented by the DIA Art Foundation, New York (2018); and an installation/performance at Participant Inc., New York (2018); and a lecture/performance on experimentation, politics and sexuality in the work of filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs at Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver BC, Canada (2020).arris received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016), the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2014), and the Rome Prize Fellowship (2000) among other awards and honors. Harris joined the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome in 2014 and was appointed a trustee of the Tiffany Foundation in 2016. Born in the Bronx, New York, raised in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New York, Harris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His work is available from the following fine art galleries: Salon 94 (New York, NY, USA); David Castillo (Miami, FL, USA); Albert Merola Gallery (Provincetown, MA, USA); Maruani Mercier (Brussels, BE). Harris is a Professor of Art at New York University and lives in New York.-- From artist's website (January 2024):
Subjects: Harris, Lyle Ashton, 1965-; African American artists; African American gay people; African Americans in art.; Artists, Black; Black people in art.; Gay people, Black; Gay men, Black; Gay people; African American photographers.; Photographers, Black.; Photography, Artistic.; Photography; Vernacular photography.; Queer gaze.; Queer (Verb); Queer art.; Queer artists.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; African American queer people.; Black queer people.; Queer people.; LGBTQ+ people.; Black gay men.; Homosexuals.;
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Lesbian love story : a memoir in archives / by Possanza, Amelia,author.(CARDINAL)869313;
"When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on"--The names for love: Mary Casal and Juno (1892-1928) -- In the life: Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster (1932-1978) -- A golf league of her own: Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Betty Dodd (1950-1956) -- On the island of lesbians: Sappho and Anactoria (floruit 595 BC) -- Who wears the pants? Rusty Brown and Jerry (1951-1979) -- The lesbian-ruled world: Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and lesbian community (1977-1981) -- A lesbian's best friend: Amy Hoffman and Mike Riegle (1980-1992).Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276).
Subjects: Biographies.; Lesbian autobiographies.; LGBTQ+ autobiographies.; Possanza, Amelia.; Lesbians; Lesbians; Lesbians.; Lesbian biographies.;
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No place like home : lessons in activism from LGBT Kansas / by Janovy, C. J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.Introduction : a strange feeling in Middle America -- Part one. The defeat : the marriage amendment years. Trouble in Topeka -- Heartbreak in Trego County -- College towns and rivalries -- Part two. The dustoff : battered activists organize. An awakening in Wichita -- Pioneers in western Kansas -- Part three. The comeback : three cities, three losses, and a year of wins. They'll take Manhattan -- Springtime in Salina -- The once and future Hutchinson -- All points bulletins -- Part four. The transformation : as gender identities evolve, so does Kansas. Kansas City royalty -- Trans Kansas -- Epilogue : forever Kansan.Far from the coastal centers of culture and politics, Kansas stands at the very center of American stereotypes about red states. In the American imagination, it is a place LGBT people leave. No Place Like Home is about why they stay. The book tells the epic story of how a few disorganized and politically naïve Kansans, realizing they were unfairly under attack, rolled up their sleeves, went looking for fights, and ended up making friends in one of the country's most hostile states. The LGBT civil rights movement's history in California and in big cities such as New York and Washington, DC, has been well documented. But what is it like for LGBT activists in a place like Kansas, where they face much stiffer headwinds? How do they win hearts and minds in the shadow of the Westboro Baptist Church ("Christian" motto: "God Hates Fags")? Traveling the state in search of answers-- from city to suburb to farm-- journalist C. J. Janovy encounters LGBT activists who have fought, in ways big and small, for the acceptance and respect of their neighbors, their communities, and their government. Her book tells the story of these twenty-first-century citizen activists-- the issues that unite them, the actions they take, and the personal and larger consequences of their efforts, however successful they might be. With its close-up view of the lives and work behind LGBT activism in Kansas, No Place Like Home fills a prairie-sized gap in the narrative of civil rights in America. The book also looks forward, as an inspiring guide for progressives concerned about the future of any vilified minority in an increasingly polarized nation.
Subjects: Gay rights; Gay people; Sexual minorities; Gay rights.; Homosexuals.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
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