TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cervini,Eric
TI  - The deviant's war: the homosexual vs. the United States of America 
SN  - 9780374139797
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Kameny, Frank,
KW  - Gays
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gay rights
KW  - History
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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