Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history /
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Other Authors / Creators: | Williams, Walter L., 1948- Retter, Yolanda, 1947-2007. |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003. |
Series: | Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues.
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Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Part I. The Clash of Religions
- Document 1. Navajo Sacredness for Nadleeh
- Document 2. Illinois Indian Transgender (1677)
- Document 3. Miami Indian Sodomy (1702)
- Document 4. Native American Transgendered Females
- Document 5. Lakota Respect for Two-Spirit People (1982)
- Document 6. The Bible: Sodom and Gomorrah
- Document 7. The Bible: The Abominations of Leviticus
- Document 8. The Bible: Ruth and Naomi
- Document 9. The Bible: David and Jonathan
- Document 10. The Bible: Jesus
- Document 11. The Bible: Paul
- Document 12. Spaniards' Suppression of Sodomites (1519-1540s)
- Document 13. Virginia Sodomy Law (1610)
- Document 14. The Execution of Richard Cornish (1624-1625)
- Document 15. William Plaine Executed in New England for Teaching Masturbation (1646)
- Document 16. African American Jan Creoli Killed and Burned in Dutch Colony (1646)
- Document 17. Sara Norman and Mary Hammon Accused of Lewd Behavior (1649)
- Document 18. New Haven Law Prohibits Lesbianism (1655)
- Document 19. Puritan Sermon on The Cry of Sodom (1674)
- Document 20. Pirates in the Caribbean (1724)
- Document 21. Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)
- Document 22. Spanish Priests Condemn Transgendered Yuma Indians (1775)
- Document 23. Spanish Colonial Suppression of Sodomites in California (1775-1777)
- Part II. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Development of a Homophile Identity in the United States, 1775-1950
- Document 24. United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Document 25. United States Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791)
- Document 26. Bachelor Friendships of the Nineteenth Century
- Document 27. National Women's Rights Convention (1852)
- Document 28. Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Poetry of Democracy (1860)
- Document 29. Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868)
- Document 30. Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas (1870)
- Document 31. Females Passing as Men (1894)
- Document 32. Anthony Comstock Seeks to Imprison Inverts (1900)
- Document 33. United States Navy Entraps Homosexuals (1919)
- Document 34. Society for Human Rights (1924)
- Document 35. The Well of Loneliness (1929)
- Document 36. Sigmund Freud on Homosexuality (1935)
- Document 37. Lesbian Challenges Georgia's Sodomy Law (1939)
- Document 38. Lesbians in the Women's Army Corps (1945)
- Document 39. Psychiatrists Oppose Homosexual Rights Laws (1945)
- Document 40. Vice Versa, America's First Lesbian Magazine (1947)
- Document 41. Vice Versa Predictions (1947)
- Document 42. Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts (1950)
- Part III. Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States, 1950-1977
- Document 43. Formation of the Mattachine Society (1950)
- Document 44. Mattachine Society Meetings (1950)
- Document 45. Mattachine Protests Police Entrapment (1952)
- Document 46. Formation of ONE, Inc. (1952)
- Document 47. Jim Kepner's First Mattachine Meeting (1953)
- Document 48. Tampa Lesbian Bar Raid (1953)
- Document 49. Daughters of Bilitis (1955)
- Document 50. Founding of ONE Institute of Homophile Studies (1956)
- Document 51. Gay Bashing in Massachusetts (1956)
- Document 52. Allen Ginsberg and the Beatniks (1956)
- Document 53. Crittenden Report on Homosexuality in the United States Navy (1957)
- Document 54. Evelyn Hooker Psychological Research (1957)
- Document 55. Supreme Court Rules ONE Is Not Obscene (1958)
- Document 56. Mattachine National Convention (1959)
- Document 57. A Homosexual Bill of Rights (1961)
- Document 58. Jose Sarria Runs for San Francisco City Council (1961)
- Document 59. ACLU Begins Gay Rights Cases (1963)
- Document 60. Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington (1963)
- Document 61. Mohave Indian Two-Spirit Person (1964)
- Document 62. Frank Kameny Resists Job Firing (1964)
- Document 63. Mattachine Pickets the White House (1965)
- Document 64. San Francisco Activism (1965)
- Document 65. Lesbian Activism and The Ladder (1966)
- Document 66. Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny Push the Pentagon (1966)
- Document 67. Supreme Court Excludes and Deports Homosexual Immigrants (1967)
- Document 68. PRIDE and The Advocate Magazine (1967)
- Document 69. Rev. Troy Perry Founds the Metropolitan Community Church (1968)
- Document 70. Homophile Action League (1968)
- Document 71. A Gay Manifesto (1969)
- Document 72. Stonewall Riots in New York (1969)
- Document 73. Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance (1970)
- Document 74. Gay Lib Zaps Psychologists (1970)
- Document 75. Congress to Unite Women (1970)
- Document 76. The Woman Identified Woman (1970)
- Document 77. NOW Endorses Lesbian Rights (1971)
- Document 78. Lesbian Nation (1972)
- Document 79. Democratic Party Convention (1972)
- Document 80. Multiple Struggles (1973)
- Document 81. Dr. Howard Brown Comes Out (1973)
- Document 82. National Gay Task Force Founded (1973)
- Document 83. Lambda Legal Defense Fund (1973)
- Document 84. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (1973)
- Document 85. American Psychiatric Association Vote (1974)
- Document 86. Lesbian Child Custody Rights (1974)
- Document 87. Lesbians as the Vanguard of Feminism (1975)
- Document 88. Gay Asians (1975)
- Document 89. Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles (1976)
- Part IV. Backlash: The Reaction to Gay and Lesbian Progress in the United States, 1977-1987
- Document 90. Anita Bryant Defeats Miami Gay Rights Ordinance (1977)
- Document 91. Gay Men Harm Society (1978)
- Document 92. Mormon Suppression of Homosexuality (1978)
- Document 93. Harvey Milk on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1978)
- Document 94. Gay Is Not Good (1979)
- Document 95. Homosexuality Is Unnatural (1979)
- Document 96. March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1979)
- Document 97. Asian American Lesbian Speaks at the Third World Lesbian/Gay Conference (1979)
- Document 98. A Gay Priest Speaks Out on Fundamentalists (1980)
- Document 99. Anita Bryant's Startling Reversal (1980)
- Document 100. Democratic Party and Gay Rights (1980)
- Document 101. Congressman Bauman on Opposition to Gay Rights (1980)
- Document 102. AIDS Strikes Gay Men (1981)
- Document 103. Jerry Falwell Fund-Raising Letter (1981)
- Document 104. Pope John Paul II on Controlling the Body (1981)
- Document 105. Wisconsin Antidiscrimination Law (1981)
- Document 106. Violence against Lesbian (1982)
- Document 107. Merle Woo Challenges the University of California (1982)
- Document 108. Simultaneity of Oppression (1983)
- Document 109. Lesbians of Color Conference (1983)
- Document 110. Police Abuse against Gays (1983)
- Document 111. The Death of Charlie Howard (1984)
- Document 112. Are Gay Rights Right? (1985)
- Document 113. Armistead Maupin's "Design for Living" (1985)
- Document 114. AIDS and Gay Rights (1986)
- Document 115. Bowers v. Hardwick Sodomy Law Case (1986)
- Document 116. Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality (1986)
- Document 117. Homophobia in the Black Community (1986)
- Document 118. Antigay Violence (1987)
- Document 119. AIDS as God's Punishment (1987)
- Part V. Queer America: The Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the United States, 1987-2000
- Document 120. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) (1987)
- Document 121. National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (1987)
- Document 122. Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (1987)
- Document 123. Randy Burns--Gay American Indians (1988)
- Document 124. AIDS Should Not Prevent Sexual Pleasure (1988)
- Document 125. National Coming Out Day (1988)
- Document 126. Congressman William Dannemeyer Opposes Gay Rights (1989)
- Document 127. Jewish Rabbi Acceptance of Gay and Lesbian Rights (1989)
- Document 128. Queer Nation (1990)
- Document 129. Bisexuals and Gay Rights (1991)
- Document 130. Gays in the Republican Party (1991)
- Document 131. Democratic Party Progay Rights (1992)
- Document 132. Kentucky v. Wasson (1992)
- Document 133. Colorado Amendment 2 (1992)
- Document 134. Oregon Measure 9 (1992)
- Document 135. Lesbian Appointed to Federal Government (1993)
- Document 136. Lesbians and Gay Men in the Military (1993)
- Document 137. Military Working Group on Homosexuality (1993)
- Document 138. Barry Goldwater on Gays in the Military (1993)
- Document 139. Hawai'i Same-Sex Marriage Court Case (1993)
- Document 140. March on Washington (1993)
- Document 141. Deaf, Black, and Gay: Comparative Rights (1993)
- Document 142. Impact of Gays on the Media (1994)
- Document 143. PFLAG Supports Gay and Lesbian Children (1994)
- Document 144. Catholic Condemnation of Homosexuality (1994)
- Document 145. Ex-Gays Condemn Gay Rights (1994)
- Document 146. Bisexual Young Woman Speaks Out (1994)
- Document 147. Sharon Bottoms Child Custody Court Case (1994)
- Document 148. Japanese American Citizens League Supports Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage (1994)
- Document 149. Lesbianas Unidas (1994)
- Document 150. Exposing the Religious Right (1995)
- Document 151. The Lesbian Avengers (1995)
- Document 152. Brandon Teena Murder Trial (1996)
- Document 153. Romer v. Evans (1996)
- Document 154. Defense of Marriage Act (1996)
- Document 155. Galluccio-Holden Adoption Lawsuit (1997)
- Document 156. Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (1997)
- Document 157. Internet Publication for Gay and Lesbian Rights (1997)
- Document 158. Intersex Society of North America (1997)
- Document 159. Transgender Liberation (1998)
- Document 160. Southern Baptist Convention Condemns Homosexuality (1998)
- Document 161. Focus on the Family (1998)
- Document 162. Hawai'i Voters Reject Same-Sex Marriage (1998)
- Document 163. Mrs. Shepard Speaks in Support of Hate Crimes Laws (1998)
- Document 164. Hate Crimes Laws Won't Stop Hate (1998)
- Document 165. Coming Out (1998)
- Document 166. Cyberactivism (1999)
- Document 167. Stan Baker v. State of Vermont (1999)
- Document 168. Overturning State Sodomy Laws (1999)
- Document 169. Dale v. Boy Scouts of America (1999)
- Document 170. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
- Document 171. Transgender Rights and the ACLU (2000)
- Document 172. Laura Schlessinger Radio Show (2000)
- Document 173. Suicide of a Gay Mormon (2000)
- Document 174. Antigay Hate Crimes in High Schools (2000)
- Document 175. Millennium March on Washington (2000)
- Conclusion
- Glossary
- List of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Organizations
- Selected Bibliography
- Index