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    Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution

    By Linda Hirshman

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    In the vein of Taylor Branch’s classic Parting of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman delivers the enthralling, groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.

    When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same gender. Four decades later, in 2011, New York legalized gay marriage and the armed services stopped enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Successful social movements are always extraordinary, but these advances seem like something of a miracle.

    Linda Hirshman recounts the long roads that led to these victories, detailing the remarkable and revolutionary story of the movement that has blurred rigid gender lines, altered the shared culture, and broadened our definitions of family. Written in vivid prose, at once emotional and erudite, Victory is an utterly vibrant work of reportage and eyewitness accounts and demonstrates how, in a matter of decades, a focused group of activists forged a classic campaign for cultural change that will serve as a model for all future political movements.

    “Remarkable for its emotional punch as for its historical insight.”—New York Times Book Review

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9780062202253
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    Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
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    Linda Hirshman

    LINDA HIRSHMAN is the author of Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, and of the New York Times best-selling Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.

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    • 4/5
      Good overview history of gay history, specifically for the 20th century. Our country has already gone through some big changes since this book was published, but it helped give me an overview of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis. I would view this book as a general starting point, not an in-depth dive.