Blowing the Lid: Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens

by Stuart Feather

Book Overview

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785351435
• ISBN13: 9781785351433
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"