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Since the June 1969 uprising at New York's Stonewall Inn, the very word "Stonewall" has become etched in the American psyche as a synonym for "liberation." Stonewall proved a cataclysmic marker in the lives of gay men and lesbians: it was the point after which gay people were no longer content to live in fearful silence as their most basic rights were trampled on or ignored. Stonewall happened because homosexuals of all races revolted against an act of official oppression. It was indeed a beginning, but it was also the culmination of a long struggle against the tyranny of socially regulated and defined speech about homosexuality.
In this insightful and engaging analysis, Byrne R. S. Fone maps out one very significant road to Stonewall - the literary course of male homoerotic desire and the homophobia that has made so much of what homosexuals have written so passionate and moving. Most of the texts Fone analyzes presume that sexuality is the central aspect of identity. Whereas gay literature since 1969 has been a vocal and supporting partner to the activism that has characterized the movement for lesbian and gay rights, before 1969 there were few political initiatives and only a handful of organized groups: the text was dominant.
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American literature, English literature, Gay men in literature, Gay mens' writings, American, Gay mens' writings, English, History and criticism, Homophobia, Homophobia in literature, Homosexuality and literature, Homosexuality, Male, in literature, Gay men's writings, English, Gay men's writings, American, Male homosexuality in literature, History, Male homosexuality, in literature, LGBTQ literary criticism, LGBTQ historyPlaces
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A Road To Stonewall 1750-1969: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature
June 1995, Diane Pub Co
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A road to Stonewall: male homosexuality and homophobia in England and America literature, 1750-1969
1995, Twayne Publishers
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0805788565 9780805788563
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A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature, 1750-1969 (Twayn's Literature and Society, No 6)
November 1994, Twayne Publishers
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0805745343 9780805745344
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