9781422283783

CONTENTS

Foreword by Kevin Jennings, Founder, GLSEN ............................................ 8

1. Gay Communities ........................................................................................... 11 The Human Community ....................................................................................... 13 Close-up: Famous Gay Neighborhoods ............................................................ 16 An Invisible Minority .............................................................................................. 17 2. The Foundations of the LGBT Community .............................................. 21 Finding Each Other ................................................................................................ 23 Close-up: The Pioneering Daughters of Bilitis .................................................. 25 A Changing World ................................................................................................. 26 Bar Communities ................................................................................................... 27 Close-up: Softball—The Lesbian Alternative ..................................................... 30 Double Lives ........................................................................................................... 31 Close-up: Unmasking the Mattachine Society ................................................. 32 3. Gay Liberation and AIDS .............................................................................. 35 Stonewall and the LGBT Civil Rights Movement .............................................. 36 Close-up: Online LGBT Communities ................................................................ 37 Close-up: Gay Pride Is Global ............................................................................. 40 An Ongoing Party .................................................................................................. 41 Lesbians in the 1970s ........................................................................................... 43 The End of the Party ............................................................................................. 44 Close-up: ACT UP Takes Action ......................................................................... 45 Close-up: AIDS and the End of Bathhouses ..................................................... 46