Letters to One : gay and lesbian voices from the 1950s and 1960s / edited and with an introduction by Craig M. Loftin.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Loftin, Craig M.

Series:

• SUNY series in queer politics and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Homosexuality--United States.
• Homosexuality.
• United States.
• One (Los Angeles, Calif.).
• Gay people--United States.
• Gay people.
• Lesbians--United States.
• Lesbians.
• Gay liberation movement--United States.
• Gay liberation movement.

Physical Description:

ix, 238 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012]

Summary:

• Long before the Stonewall riots, ONE magazine-the first openly gay magazine in the United States-offered a positive viewpoint of homosexuality and encouraged gay people to resist discrimination and persecution. Despite a limited monthly circulation of only a few thousand, the magazine influenced the substance, character, and tone of the early American gay rights movement. This book is a collection of letters written to the magazine, a small number of which were published in ONE, but most of them were not. The letters candidly explore issues such as police harassment: of gay and lesbian communities, antigay job purges, and the philosophical, scientific, and religious meanings of homosexuality.
• A volume in the SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures Cynthia Burack and Jyl J. Josephson, editors Book jacket.

Contents:

• Biography and self-analysis
• Love, sex, and relationships
• Repression and defiance
• Incarceration
• Representations and stereotypes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781438442983
• 143844298X
• 9781438442976
• 1438442971

OCLC:

748812894