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Pre-gay L.A. : a social history of the movement for homosexual rights

Title: Pre-gay L.A. : a social history of the movement for homosexual rights / C. Todd White.
Author: White, C. Todd, 1965-2020.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2009.

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Description

xvii, 258 pages : map; 23 cm

Summary

This book explores the origins and history of the modern American movement for homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and continues today. Part ethnography and part social history, it is a detailed account of the history of the movement as manifested through the emergence of four related organizations: Mattachine, ONE Incorporated, the Homosexual Information Center (HIC), and the Institute for the Study of Human Resources (ISHR), which began doing business as ONE Incorporated when the two organizations merged in 1995. Pre-Gay L.A. is a chronicle of how one clandestine special interest association emerged as a powerful political force that spawned several other organizations over a period of more than sixty years.

Alternative Title

Pre-gay Los Angeles

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-251) and index.

Contents

Mattachine (1948-52) -- The launch of ONE (1952-53) -- Cleaning house (1953-54) -- The establishment of ONE Institute (1955-60) -- Separation (1960-62) -- Division (1963-65) -- Two years of war (1965-67) -- The founding of ISHR, HIC, and Christopher Street West (1965-70) -- Conclusion(s).

ISBN

9780252034411
0252034414
9780252076411
0252076419
9780252092862 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2008041146
99933981747

OCLC

ocn246892413
246892413
SCSB-14688983

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library