Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Ame

by Dudley Clendinen, Adam Nagourney

Overview

The definitive account of the gay rights movement, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good is comprehensive, authoritative, and excellently written.

This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and—until now—untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America’s culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever.

Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important—and nearly lost—chapter in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476740713
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	02/13/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	754
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Dudley Clendinen (1944–2012) wrote for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. He was the editor of a book of essays, The Prevailing South; author of A Place Called Canterbury; and author of the text of a book of photographs, Homeless in America.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: An Invisible People

Part One: Awakening

1. A Fight at a Bar

2. Los Angeles

3. New York

4. Climbing the System

5. First Stirrings

6. Sisters and Brothers

Part Two: A Place at the Table

7. Kameny for Congress

8. A Voice in the Statehouse

9. The Fifth Column

10. San Francisco: Coming to Power

11. In Our Mothers' Names

12. New Orleans: Fire UpStairs

13. Ordinary People

14. A Question of Sanity

15. Elaine

16. Minneapolis: The Coat Check

17. Ordinary Things

18. Citizen Goodstein

19. Brothers and Sisters

Part Three: The Backlash

20. The Governor of Georgia

21. A Voice in the White House

22. Miami: The Fundamentalists Awake

23. A Very Bad Year

24. An Uneasy Victory in San Francisco

25. Money in the Hills of Bel Air

26. A Black-Tie Affair

27. California: The Main Event

28. A Friend in City Hall

29. Colliding Forces

30. The Pink Invitation

31. Until the Party Ended

Part Four: Out of Anger

32. After Disco

33. Swept Away

34. Little to Celebrate

35. For the Public Good

36. Cop at the Door

37. Requiem

Epilogue

Cast of Characters and Interviewees

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index