Has the Gay Movement Failed?
Has the Gay Movement Failed? "Martin Duberman is a national treasure." --Masha Gessen, The New YorkerThe past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider…
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Has the Gay Movement Failed?
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure." --Masha Gessen, The New YorkerThe past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative.
Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation.