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092 _a306.766
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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aCervini, Eric,
_d1992-
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe deviant's war :
_bthe homosexual vs. the United States of America /
_cEric Cervini.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a494 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aIn 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.
600 1 0 _aKameny, Frank,
_d1925-2011.
650 0 _aGays
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_9304318
650 0 _aGay rights
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_9175221
650 0 _aGays
_xLegal status, laws, etc.
_zUnited States.
_9172942
655 7 _aBiographies.
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