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22.
Ibid., 340.
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23.
Canaday,
Straight State,
174–213.
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24.
Ibid., 9.
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25.
Pat Bond, quoted in Adair and Adair,
Word Is Out,
61.
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26.
Loren Wahl,
The Invisible Glass
(New York: Greenberg, 1950), 200.
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27.
Quoted in James Rorty, “The Harassed Pocket-Book Publishers,”
Antioch Review
15, no. 4 (Winter 1955), 413.
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28.
Ibid., 412–13.
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29.
Bérubé,
Coming Out,
257.
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30.
History Project,
Improper,
131.
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31.
Mid-Town Journal
, quoted in History Project,
Improper,
169.
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32.
Ricardo J. Brown,
The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 3.
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33.
History Project,
Improper,
179.
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34.
Marc Stein,
City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945–1972
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 30–32.
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35.
Hurwitz,
Bohemian,
191.
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36.
Faderman and Timmons,
Gay L.A.,
75.
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37.
Kennedy and Davis,
Slippers,
38.
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38.
Donald Vining,
A Gay Diary, 1933–1946
(New York: Pepys Press, 1979), 276.
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Chapter Nine: Visible Communities/Invisible Lives

1.
W. Dorr Legg,
Homosexuals Today: A Handbook of Organizations and Publications
, quoted in Martha E. Stone, “Unearthing the ‘Knights of the Clock,'”
Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
17, no. 3
(May–June 2010).
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2.
Stephanie Coontz,
The
Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trip
(New York: Basic Books, 1992), 36.
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3.
Ibid., 29.
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4.
Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
(Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1948), 5.
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5.
Ibid., 650.
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6.
Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin,
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
(Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1953), 457.
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7.
Gavin Butt,
Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963
(Durham: NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 33.
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8.
Life
magazine, quoted in Butt,
Between You and Me,
33.
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9.
Harry Hay,
Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder
, ed. Will Roscoe
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 131.
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10.
David K. Johnson,
The Lavender Scare
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 76.
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11.
John D'Emilio,
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 79.
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12.
Billye Talmadge, quoted in Marcia M. Gallo,
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement
(New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006), 16.
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13.
D'Emilio,
Sexual Politics,
107.
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14.
John Howard,
Men Like That: A Southern Queer History
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 86.
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15.
Janet Staiger, “Finding Community in the Early 1960s: Underground Cinema and Sexual Politics,” in
Queer Cinema: The Film Reader
, eds. Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin (New York: Routledge, 2004), 167–88.
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16.
Rhonda Bernstein, “Adaptation, Censorship, and Audiences of Questionable Type: Lesbian Sightings in
Rebecca
(1940) and
The Uninvited
(1944),”
Cinema Journal
37, no. 3 (Spring 1998), 26.
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17.
Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer,
Washington Confidential
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1951), 90–95.
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18.
Edmund Bergler,
Homosexuality: Disease or a Way of Life?
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1956), 13.
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19.
Frank S. Caprio,
Female Homosexuality: A Psychodynamic Study of Lesbianism
(New York: Citadel Press, 1954), 120.
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20.
Albert Ellis,
Sex Without Guilt
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1958), 65.
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21.
Ibid., 25.
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22.
Albert Ellis,
Homosexuality: Its Causes and Cures
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1965), 81.
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23.
Katherine V. Forrest, introduction to
Lesbian Pulp Fiction
(San Francisco: Cleis, 2005), ix.
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24.
Thomas Waugh,
Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall
(New York: Columbia
University Press, 1996), 217.
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25.
Ibid., 219.
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26.
David K. Johnson, “Physique Pioneers: The Politics of 1960s Gay Consumer Culture,”
Journal of Social History
(Summer 2010), 869.
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27.
Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek, ed.,
Psychoanalysis and Male Sexuality
(New Haven, CT: College and University Press Services, 1966), 12.
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28.
Kate Friedlander,
The Psychoanalytic Approach to Juvenile Delinquency
(New York: International Publishers, 1947), 156.
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29.
Eric C. Schneider,
Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 26.
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30.
Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel,
Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making “Rebel Without a Cause”
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005), 87.
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31.
Robert Lindner,
Prescription for Rebellion
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1953), 12.
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32.
Robert Lindner,
Must You Conform?
(New York: Rinehart, 1956), 31–76.
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33.
Barbara Ehrenreich,
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
(New York: Doubleday, 1983), 24.
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34.
William J. Mann,
Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910–1969
(New York: Viking, 2001), 317.
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35.
Robert Hofler,
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Wilson
(New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005).
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36.
Amy Lawrence,
The Passion of Montgomery Clift
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 147.
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37.
Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave,
Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock and Roll
(Hampden, CT: Archon Books, 1988), 16.
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38.
W. T. Lhamon Jr.,
Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 94.
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39.
Robert W. Wood,
Christ and the Homosexual (Some Observations
) (New York: Vantage, 1960), 43–55.
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40.
Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp,' ” in
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
(New York: Delta, 1966), 247.
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41.
Steven Watson,
The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944–1960
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1995), 3.
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42.
Allen Ginsberg, quoted in Watson,
Birth,
3.
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43.
Watson,
Birth,
258.
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44.
Allen Ginsberg, “A Definition of the Beat Generation,”
Friction
1 (Winter 1982).
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45.
James Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
(New York: Dial Press, 1963), 22.
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46.
Howard,
Men,
158.
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47.
John D'Emilo,
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
(New York: Free Press, 2003), 191.
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Chapter Ten: Revolt/Backlash/Resistance

1.
Zinn,
People's History,
469.
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2.
Maurice Isserman,
If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left
(New York: Basic Books, 1987), 202.
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3.
Carl Wittman, “A Gay Manifesto,” in
Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation,
eds. Karla Jay and Allen Young (New York: New York University Press, 1992), 330–41.
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4.
David Carter,
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004), 183.
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5.
Ibid., 35.
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6.
Donn Teal,
The Gay Militants
(New York: Stein and Day, 1971), 154.
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7.
Carter,
Stonewall,
235.
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8.
David Eisenbach,
Gay Power: An American Revolution
(New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006), 266.
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9.
Stephen L. Cohen,
The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York
(New York: Routledge, 2007), 203–14.
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10.
Jill Johnston,
Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973), 277.
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11.
Faderman,
Odd Girls,
216.
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12.
Alice Echols, “The Taming of the Id: Feminist Sexual Practices, 1968–1983,” in
Pleasure and Danger,
ed. Carole Vance (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), 65.
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13.
Natalie Shainess, quoted in “The New Bisexuals,”
Time,
May 13, 1974.
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14.
William N. Eskridge Jr.,
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861
–
2003
(New York: Viking, 2008), 202.
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15.
Fred Fejes,
Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 96.
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16.
Ibid., 144.
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17.
Anita Bryant,
The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of Our Nation's Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality
(Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977), 119.
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18.
Fejes,
Gay Rights,
145.
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19.
Bryant,
The Anita Bryant Story,
26.
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20.
Randy Shilts,
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 191.
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21.
Sarah Schulman,
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), 23.
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22.
Pat Buchanan, syndicated column,
Seattle Times,
July 31, 1993.
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23.
Jerry Falwell, quoted in Bill Press, “The Sad Legacy of Jerry Falwell,”
Milford
(Mass.)
Daily News
, May 18, 2007.
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