A Road To Stonewall: Male Homosexuality And Homophobia In English And American Literature, 1750-1969 (Twayne's Literature & Society Series)

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A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 (Twayne's Literature & Society Series)

A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 (Twayne's Literature & Society Series)

Since the June 1969 uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn, the very word Stonewall has become etched in the American psyche as a synonym for liberation. Stonewall proved a cataclysmic marker in the lives of gay men and lesbians: it was the point after which gay people were no longer content to live in fearful silence as their most basic rights were trampled on or ignored. Stonewall happened because homosexuals of all races revolted against an act of official oppression. It was indeed a beginning, but it was also the culmination of a long struggle against the tyranny of socially regulated and defined speech about homosexuality.In this insightful and engaging analysis, Byrne R. S. Fone maps out one very significant road to Stonewall - the literary course of male homoerotic desire and the homophobia that has made so much of what homosexuals have written so passionate and moving. Most of the texts Fone analyzes presume that sexuality is the central aspect of identity. Whereas gay literature since 1969 has been a vocal and supporting partner to the activism that has characterized the movement for lesbian and gay rights, before 1969 there were few political initiatives and only a handful of organized groups: the text was dominant.

Specification of A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 (Twayne's Literature & Society Series)

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AuthorFone, Byrne R. S.
Bindinghardcover
Languageenglish
EditionFirst edition (presumed)
ISBN-100805788565
ISBN-139780805788563
Publisher
Publication Year1994T

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