#the deviants war

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The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America 5/5 ⭐

By Eric Cervini

A very important book detailing the history of the American gay rights movement. This book focuses primarily on Frank Kameny, one of the biggest figures in the gay civil rights movement. One of my favorite things to watch was how gay people and the gay culture want from feeling ashamed, but still needing to work and saying they should be treated well despite their deviance to realizing that being gay was good and moral and fuck everyone who says otherwise. It also touches on early conflicts such as respectability politics as well as ties between the Civil rights movement and conflicts between the women's rights movement. Clocking in at a thicc 500+ pages, this isn't a book that you can sit down with for some light reading, but I can't overstate it's importance in terms of gay cultural history.

Next up: Such a fun age by Kiley Reid