Pre-gay L.A. : a social history of the movement for homosexual rights
This book explores the origins and history of the modern American movement for homosexual rights, which originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and continues today. Part ethnography and part social history, it is a detailed account of the history of the movement as manifested through the emergence of four related organizations: Mattachine, ONE Incorporated, the Homosexual Information Center (HIC), and the Institute for the Study of Human Resources (ISHR), which began doing business as ONE Incorporated when the two organizations merged in 1995. Pre-Gay L.A. is a chronicle of how one clandestine special interest association emerged as a powerful political force that spawned several other organizations over a period of more than sixty years
History
xvii, 258 pages : map ; 23 cm
9780252034411, 9780252076411, 0252034414, 0252076419
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Mattachine (1948-52)
The launch of ONE (1952-53)
Cleaning house (1953-54)
The establishment of ONE Institute (1955-60)
Separation (1960-62)
Division (1963-65)
Two years of war (1965-67)
The founding of ISHR, HIC, and Christopher Street West (1965-70)
Conclusion(s)