Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement

by Mark Thompson

Book Overview

News stories, essays, cartoons, interviews, and more than one thousand photographs, all culled from the pages of the leading homosexual publication, chronicle the gay rights movement over the past... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312131143
• ISBN13: 9780312131142
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Good resource

I happened upon this title in my college town's used book-store and even though I had read (and owned) previous historical accounts of the GLBT movmenet, I was drawn to the fluid layout of the book. Befiting the sponsoring magazine's name, this book does not simply chronicle the past, but inspires readers to become contributors for a better future. Also helpful is the concious decision to focus on events in the entire country, as opposed to only the East and West Coasts. The only problem I had with the book was the selective ommission of interviews towards the present day. In 1993, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain vocally expressed his support for GLBT freedom/opposition to Oregon's homophobic Ballot Measure 9 (among other progressive views) in a cover-story/interview, but nothing was mentioned about his influence on our generation in a time when the right was flush with zeal attempting these strategies, themselves trying to influence the youth vote.