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Queer and present dangers: Homosexuality and American antiwar activism during the Vietnam era.

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Title/Author:	Queer and present dangers: Homosexuality and American antiwar activism during the Vietnam era.
Author:	Lekus, Ian Keith.
Description:	492 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2334.
Notes:	Supervisor: William H. Chafe.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Women's Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135134
ISBN:	0496823582

Queer and present dangers: Homosexuality and American antiwar activism during the Vietnam era.
Lekus, Ian Keith.

Queer and present dangers: Homosexuality and American antiwar activism during the Vietnam era. - 492 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2334.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2003.

At the same time, the trust and the candor earned during the ongoing work of discussing, planning, and carrying out social change provided some heterosexual activists with the experiential knowledge necessary to challenge homophobic values and institutions. Ultimately, those movement cultures which were less reliant upon hierarchical forms of decision-making and less enmeshed in racialized and gendered notions of what "revolution" entailed proved most capable of recruiting Americans to pressure the U.S. government to withdraw from Southeast Asia. Those activists who could develop personally and politically intimate relations created the movement spaces where lesbians and gay men did not have to sacrifice their identities for the sake of building a more democratic society.

ISBN: 0496823582Subjects--Topical Terms:

212436
Women's Studies.

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520 $a Queer and Present Dangers draws upon fifty-four interviews conducted by the author with lesbian, gay male, bisexual, and heterosexual activists, as well as upon numerous interviews conducted by other scholars. These interviews illuminate the interpersonal relationships and political intimacy only sporadically documented in the written record, and secondarily offer evidence of the experiences of rank-and-file activists not always represented in the historical literature on the subject. This dissertation also relies upon a vast array of archival sources (including organizational records, diaries, autobiographies, pamphlets, mainstream and underground newspapers, and government documents) and material artifacts (such as protest song lyrics, cartoons, posters, and buttons) to assess the quality of movement intimacy developed by Vietnam-era antiwar organizers.
520 $a The clear majority of movement participants grew up in a Cold War culture that equated homosexuality with both communist subversion and the corruption of American youth. Harassed for their long hair and their draft resistance, many activist men reclaimed their masculinity by bragging about their sexual prowess with women and by mocking their rivals as homosexuals. FBI and police infiltrators further exacerbated these hostile movement cultures by spreading rumors about activists' sexual orientations in order to discredit them. In order to justify such rhetoric and practices, these men often referenced the homophobia and misogyny that they perceived as inherent to the white working-class, Black Power, and international Third World movements and cultures that they judged to be authentically revolutionary. Gay-baiting took its toll upon unknown numbers of lesbians and gay men, compelling some to lie and hide their sexual orientation, while driving others from the peace movements altogether.
520 $a This dissertation investigates the ways in which the political culture developed by antiwar activists during the Vietnam War years influenced their effectiveness organizing against American foreign policy. Examining the experiences of gay and lesbian activists across the spectrum of tactics and ideologies, from radical pacifists to armed revolutionaries, offers an ideal opportunity to evaluate the democratic movement culture developed by antiwar activists. Queer and Present Dangers describes this feature of social movements as the intimacy of organizing---a dynamic of interpersonal relationships that directly affected the ability of various social movements to mobilize people.
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