The
Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
by Eric Cervini
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One
of the New York Times 13 Books to Watch For in June and a Publishers Weekly
Most Anticipated Spring Book
From
a young Harvard- and Cambridge-trained historian, the secret history of the
fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.
In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising
astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a
summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to
believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews,
Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed
from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back.
Based on firsthand accounts,
recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, The
Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society
of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to
protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the
forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New
Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of
America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking,
byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal;
sex; love; and ultimately victory.
Product
details
Hardcover : 512 pages
Publisher : Farrar, Straus
and Giroux (June 2, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0374139792
ISBN-13 : 978-0374139797
Product Dimensions : 6.3 x 1.6 x 9.3 inches
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