Gay Seattle Stories of Exile and Belonging【電子書籍】[ Gary L. Atkins ]

＜p＞Winner of a 2004 Washington State Book Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞Winner of a 2004 Alpha Sigma Nu (ASN) Jesuit Book Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1893, the Washington State legislature quietly began passing a set of laws that essentially made homosexuality, and eventually even the discussion of homosexuality, a crime. A century later Mike Lowry became the first governor of the state to address the annual lesbian and gay pride rally in Seattle. ＜em＞Gay Seattle＜/em＞ traces the evolution of Seattle’s gay community in those 100 turbulent years, telling through a century of stories how gays and lesbians have sought to achieve a sense of belonging in Seattle.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gary Atkins recounts the demonization of gays by social crusaders around the turn of the century, the earliest prosecutions for sodomy, the official harassment and discrimination through most of the twentieth century, and the medical discrimination and commitment to mental hospitals that continued into the 1970s as homosexuality was diagnosed as a diseas．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る