Ebook: LGBTQ Social Movements
Author: Stulberg Lisa M
- Tags: Gay liberation movement, Gay liberation movement--United States, Minorités sexuelles--États-Unis, Mouvement de libération des homosexuels--États-Unis, Sexual minorities, Sexual minorities--United States, Livres numériques, Gay liberation movement -- United States, Sexual minorities -- United States, Minorités sexuelles -- États-Unis, Mouvement de libération des homosexuels -- États-Unis, United States
- Series: Social movements series
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: United States
- Language: English
- epub
In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the U.S., illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-20th century.
Covering a range of topics including the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation, AIDS politics, queer activism, marriage equality fights, youth action, and bisexual and transgender justice, Lisa M. Stulberg explores how marginalized people and communities have used a wide range of political and cultural tools to demand and create change. The five key themes that guide the book are assimilationism and liberationism as complex strategies for equality, the limits and possibilities of legal change, the role of art and popular culture in social change, the...