Forging Gay Identities by Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Forging Gay Identities

Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994

Elizabeth A. Armstrong

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note on Use of Identity Terms

1. The Transformation of the Lesbian/Gay Movement

Part 1. Forging a Gay Identity Movement

2. Beginnings: Homosexual Politics and Organizations, 1950-1968

3. Innovation: Gay Liberation and the Origins of Coming Out, 1969-1970

4. Opportunity: Gay Liberation and the Decline of the New Left, 1969-1973

5. The Crystallization of a Gay Identity Movement, 1971-1973

Part 2. Consequences of Field Formation

6. Success: Growth of a Gay Identity Movement in the 1970s

7. Exclusions: Gender, Race, and Class in the Gay Identity Movement

8. Challenge: The Effect of AIDS on the Gay Identity Movement, 1981-1994

9. Continuity and Change: The Gay Identity Movement in the 1980s and 1990s

Part 3. Conclusion

10. Institutions, Social Movements, and American Political Culture

Appendix: Constructing a Database of San Francisco’s Lesbian/Gay Organizations

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Details

ISBN	9780226026947
Genre	History; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Copyright Date	2002
Publication Date	2002
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	300
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	Gay liberation movement; Gay Liberation Movement – California – San Francisco – History – 20th Century; Gay Liberation Movement/ California/ San Francisco/ History/ 20th Century; Gays – California – San Francisco – Identity; Gays – California – San Francisco – Political Activity – History – 20th Century
BookID	4245