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_aCervini, Eric, _d1992- _eauthor. |
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_aThe deviant's war : _bthe homosexual vs. the United States of America / _cEric Cervini. |
250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2020. |
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_a494 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
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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. | ||
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_aKameny, Frank, _d1925-2011. |
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_aGays _zUnited States _vBiography. _9304318 |
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_aGay rights _zUnited States _xHistory. _9175221 |
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_aGays _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States. _9172942 |
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