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Civil Rights and Social Movements

Gay Rights Movement

Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources
Detroit, Gale, 2006.
"Approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context." Emphasis on the women's rights and gay rights movements in the U.S. and Britain.
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
Jason Baumann, editor. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Photographs from the New York Public Library's archive of photographs of 1960s and '70s LGBTQ history from photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies. Available?
The Fifties: An Underground History
James R. Gaines. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History
Eric Marcus. New York, N.Y., HarperCollins, 1992. Available?
Witness to Revolution: The Advocate Reports on Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1967-1999.
Chris Bull, editor. Los Angeles, Calif., Alyson Books, 1999. Available?
The Gay Rights Movement:1951-1975: Mattachine Society of New York, Inc.
Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1998.
24 microfilm reels; archives of the Mattachine Society of New York. Index to the microfilm collection
Alexander Call Number: M-FILM 2789
The Gay Rights Movement [1970-1983]: Gay Activists Alliance: From the International Gay Information Center, the New York Public Library.
Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1998. 21 microfilm reels. Available?

Bibliography

Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990.
Linda Gerber. New York, Garland, 1993. Available?

Videos

Dyketactics and Other Films from the 1970s. Barbara Hammer. New York, 2007. Available?

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