Leah Tigers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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What Dianne did for San Francisco gay men was due to their organized hardwon pressure as a progressive voting bloc. From the (very liberal) Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: "A spontaneous demonstration of 500 people coalesced on Castro Street... chanting 'Dump Dianne.'" https://t.co/EbWLN5AmiF https://t.co/KzddcrhWeh

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"I am still homosexual, and I have a writer's block." ~Merle Miller, *On Being Different*, 1971

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what do you mean my boyfriend Mark might feel out of place at your Alison Bechdel Fun Home musical singalong party. what are you insinuating

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If anyone has read Susan Faludi's Backlash she goes into this in-depth. Women of the New Right who advertise housewifery are hypocrites, ironically dependant on feminist social change to achieve platform and positions of leadership in rightwing organizations https://t.co/EdsYowu5PX https://t.co/8rUMYJEATL

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Just discovered Charles Silverstein, co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex and co-founder of Identity House, first gay counseling center to open in New York, died 2 weeks ago. RIP. Here's his story about how he would distribute coffee and therapeutic literature to men cruising for sex. https://t.co/XRjJX0nfU8

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literature/research request: autobiographies and related personal testimony from gay men about conversion therapy (especially circa 1970). already read *Cures* by Martin Duberman; looking for more. thank you!

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so as Rachel Carson pointed out in Silent Spring the issue of the contemporary world has actually become overproduction: pesticide contamination and environmental degradation. to this day, conservationism reawakens Malthusian fears in so many people

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@hard_goer beyond some obscure 16th century European travelogues i'm compelled by, id recommend for you specifically Yosano Akiko's Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet From Japan Encounters Pre-War China, translated in 2001

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@murphyalxndr my original citation back when writing would have been Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? Phyllis Chesler's Women & Madness might be a more apt citation

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City of Night (Rechy) The Body and Society (Brown) The Making of the English Working Class (Thompson) Weimar Culture (Gay) Men in the Sun (Kanafani) Tale of Genji (Murasaki) Giovanni's Room (Baldwin) Book of Margaery Kempe (Kempe) Austerlitz (Sebald) Secondhand Time (Alexievich) https://t.co/iGQP946Mjy