An army of ex-lovers : my life at the Gay community news / Amy Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Amy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoffman, Amy.

Lesbians--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.

Lesbians.

Women newspaper editors--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.

Women newspaper editors.

Newspaper editors--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.

Newspaper editors.

Gay press--Massachusetts--Boston.

Gay press.

Gay community news (Boston, Mass.).

Gay liberation movement.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 166 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2007]

Summary:

Boston's weekly Gay Community News was "the center of the universe" during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word. Provocative, informative, inspiring, and absurd, with a small circulation but a huge influence, Gay Community News produced a generation of leaders, writers, and friends. In addition to capturing the heady atmosphere of the times--the victories, controversies, and tragedies--Hoffman's memoir is also her personal story, written with wit and insight, of growing up in a political movement; of her deepening relationships with charismatic, talented, and sometimes utterly weird coworkers; and of trying to explain it all to her large Jewish family.

ISBN:

9781558496217

1558496211

9781558496200

1558496203

OCLC:

134990244