The gay liberation youth movement in New York : "an army of lovers cannot fail"
Stephan L. Cohen (Author)
"Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations. This book focuses on three groundbreaking New York City groups. Cohen examines how gay liberation--with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance--shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change"--Publisher's description
eBook, English, 2008
Routledge, New York, 2008