Barbara Gittings : gay pioneer / by Tracy Baim ; foreword by Lillian Faderman ; photos by Kay Lahusen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baim, Tracy, author.

Contributor:

Faderman, Lillian, writer of foreword.

Tobin, Kay, photographer.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007.

Gittings, Barbara.

Lesbians--United States--Biography.

Lesbians.

Gay rights--United States--History.

Gay rights.

Gay people--United States--History.

Gay people.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Prairie Avenue Productions : Windy City Media Group, [2015]

Summary:

This is the first full-length biography of the woman who has been called the mother of the gay-rights movement, Barbara Gittings. Her work in the LGBT movement spanned from the late 1950s until her death in 2007. Her partner in life, Kay Lahusen, photographed many of the movement's biggest actions during the 1960s and more than 270 photos accompany this biography. Gittings was active in a wide range of pre- and post-Stonewall groups, including the Daughters of Bilitis. She served as editor of DOB's newsletter, The Ladder. She worked with Frank Kameny on many protests and legal cases fighting government discrimination. She also was among the leaders of the push to change the American Psychiatric Association diagnosis of homosexuality as an illness, and among those pushing the American Library Association to be more inclusive of gays. Baim's book demonstrates why Frank Kameny, who earned the right to be considered a father of the gay civil-rights movement, so aptly deemed Gittings its mother. As Baim shows, more than any lesbian leader of the 20th century, Gittings kept her eyes sharply focused on the prize of civil rights for gay people. - From the Foreword by Lillian Faderman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.

ISBN:

9781512019742

1512019747

9781512019780

151201978X

OCLC:

914900352