Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Stephan L. Cohen

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Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups-Gay Youth (GY), Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and the Gay International Youth Society of George Washington High School (GWHS)-from the advent of gay liberation in NYC in 1969 to just after its dissolution and the rise of identity politics by 1975. Cohen examines how gay liberation-with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance-shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0415957990
  
• ISBN-13: 9780415957991
• Format: Hardcover, 315pp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
• Pub. Date: July 2007
• Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture Ser.

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