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  • Title Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
  • Author Jim Downs
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, N Y
  • Date 2016-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780465032709 / 0465032702
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Gays - United States - History - 20th century, Gay liberation movement - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015040030
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

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  • Booklist, 03/01/2016, Page 33
  • Choice, 10/01/2016, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2016, Page 87
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/11/2016, Page 0

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Jim Downs, is a Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University and an associate professor of history at Connecticut College. The author of the critically acclaimed Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, he has also written for Time, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, among other publications. Downs lives in Cambridge, MA.
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New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2016. vii, 261 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in 1969. The 1970s represented a moment of triumph--both political and sexual--before the AIDS crisis in the subsequent decade, which, in the view of many, exposed the problems inherent in the so-called 'gay lifestyle'. In Stand by Me, the acclaimed historian Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records at LGBT community centers in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, Downs tells moving, revelatory stories of gay people who stood together--as friends, fellow… Read More
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