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Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation

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Description for Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation Paperback. Forty years after Stonewall, a look at the origins and influences of the Gay Liberation movement. Editor(s): Mecca, Tommi Avicolli. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 B&W photographs. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalesced into a turbulent, joyous liberation movement-one whose lasting influence would ultimately inform and profoundly shape the LGBT community of today. Personal essays explore the philosophy and culture of the stridently anti-assimilationist GLF: the actions, demonstrations, and marches; views on marriage, religion, and gender; the drugs, orgies, and communes; and GLF's relationship to the hippies, the Black Panthers, the straight Left, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864979
SKU
V9780872864979
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About Avicolli Mecca
Tommi Avicolli Mecca is a former member of Gay Liberation Front who has never stopped being an activist for queer and social justice causes. His writings have appeared in various anthologies over the years, most recently, "That's Revolting" (Soft Skull) and he is a contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, SF Examiner, and SF Bay Guardian, among other newspapers.

Reviews for Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation
"Smash the Church, Smash the State! offers an intoxicating glimpse into that time before 'pride' replaced liberation, when 'gay' was still a fiery threat to the violence of the status quo, and revolution was right around the corner from the corner store. Full of brash, contradictory, intoxicating dreams, the essays in this anthology invoke the sexual flamboyance, intellectual rigor, activist troublemaking ... Read more

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