LGBT Hampton Roads

by Dr. Charles H. Ford, Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

Overview

Virginia's Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the state in its development of LGBT institutions and infrastructure. Our Own Press would chronicle the extraordinary burst of creativity and activism that seemed to place LGBT developments in the region on a national stage. In the late 1980s and 1990s, however, military crackdowns and the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the leadership of local LGBT communities. Only in the new century would there be a renaissance of networking and engagement to bring the annual Pride Festival to center stage at Town Point Park in Norfolk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467116138
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/07/2016
Series:	Images of Modern America
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Dr. Charles H. Ford is professor and coordinator of history at Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Ford and Littlejohn have coauthored a number of important works in 20th-century Virginian history and were recipients of the Virginia Historical Society's Rachal Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Before Stonewall in the Old Dominion: Pre-1969 9

2 Mildly Militant: The Advent of Gay Liberation, 1969-1978 21

3 Building and Sustaining Our Own Communities: 1978-1988 33

4 Triumph and Tragedy: Enduring the Plague Years, 1988-1998 43

5 Treading Water in Transition: Our Own after Our Own Community Press, 1998-2007 55

6 Renaissance and Transformation in the New Century: 2007-2015 67