Queer Liberation Books

Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Ungodly.
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In America to be queer is to witness the limitless evil of religion.

Science has never devised a treatment to cure people of religious delusions that could possibly match the effectiveness of coming to terms with one's own homosexuality.

As a young man or woman begins to realize that they are different they become keenly aware of the pious, righteous bigotry that is the evil core of modern Christianity. I can not imagine a more agonizing experience than to learn that everyone hates you just as you are coming of age and realizing your own identity.

Once you accept the fact that you are queer the blinders are off, you are not only a witness to the gut level hostility and intolerance of Fundamentalism, you are the primary target of their vicious, fairy-tale laced diatribes and ballot measures.

We've decided to say "Fuck you, I'm queer, and if you have a problem with that then you have a problem."

Here is some reading material on the subject of queer activism. Queers bash back!

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
List Price: $105.00
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Between 1966 and 1975 North American youth activists established over 35 school- and community-based gay liberation youth groups whose members sought control over their own bodies, education, and sexual and social relations...
Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations Respectably Queer: Diversity Culture in LGBT Activist Organizations
List Price: $24.95
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For three years the author did participant-observation at three nationally prominent queer organizations in Los Angeles-Christopher Street West, which produces L.A.'s queer pride festival; the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, a 37-year-old multi-site organization; and Bienestar, an HIV services organization for gay Latinos...
American Queer, Now and Then American Queer, Now and Then
List Price: $29.95
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Contrasting queer life today and in years past, this landmark book brings together autobiographies, poetry, film studies, maps, documents, laws, and other texts to explore the meaning and practice of the word queer...
Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century
List Price: $65.00
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Perhaps no topic today is politically more divisive than homosexuality, particularly when it is coupled with the deeply rooted concept of civil rights. This work focuses on 20th/21st- century U. S. history as it pertains to GLBT history...
Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies)
List Price: $78.50
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Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.
Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power
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In this tenth-anniversary edition, journalist Michelangelo Signorile updates his classic Queer in America, the bestseller that exposed the hypocrisy and prejudice that pervade mainstream American institutions...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
List Price: $19.95
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As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack: Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values...
Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World (Queer Action) Come Out and Win: Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World (Queer Action)
List Price: $13.00
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Part of the Queer Action series, edited by Michael BronskiCome Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom...
From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States (Queer Politics, Queer Theories) From Identity to Politics: The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States (Queer Politics, Queer Theories)
List Price: $73.50
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Liberal democracy has provided a certain degree of lesbian and gay rights. But those rights, as we now know, are not unlimited, and they continue to be the focus of efforts by lesbian and gay movements in the United States to promote social change...
Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy Beyond Queer: Challenging Gay Left Orthodoxy
List Price: $25.00
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The author of A Place at the Table collects essays by writers intent on discrediting counterproductive assumptions about gay life and politics and on rethinking such critical issues as same-sex marriage and family life, religion, outing, and activism...
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