LGBT Hampton Roads / Dr. Charles H. Ford and Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Charles Howard, 1964- author.

Littlejohn, Jeffrey L., 1973- author.

Series:

Images of modern America.

Images of modern America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Virginia--Hampton Roads (Region)--History--Pictorial works.

Sexual minorities.

Gay pride celebrations--Virginia--Hampton Roads (Region)--Pictorial works.

Gay pride celebrations.

Hampton Roads (Va. : Region)--Social life and customs.

Hampton Roads (Va. : Region).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

"Virginia's Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the state in its development of LGBT institutions and infrastructure. Our Own Press would chronicle the extraordinary burst of creativity and activism that seemed to place LGBT developments in the region on a national stage. In the late 1980s and 1990s, however, military crackdowns and the HIV/AIDS epidemic devastated the leadership of local LGBT communities. Only in the new century would there be a renaissance of networking and engagement to bring the annual Pride Festival to center stage at Town Point Park in Norfolk"--back cover.

Contents:

Before Stonewall in the Old Dominion : pre-1969

Mildly militant : the advent of gay liberation, 1969-1978

Building and sustaining our own communities : 1978-1988

Triumph and tragedy : enduring the plague years, 1988-1998

Treading water in transition : our own after Our Own Community Press, 1998-2007

Renaissance and transformation in the new century : 2007-2015.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4396-5516-2