Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Stoner
Keyword(s):  
Gay Rights ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

Timing played a key role in all of Shilts’s success, and failures. His reporting and books on cutting-edge issues in the emerging gay liberation movement withstood strong push back on his work while establishing himself as an openly gay reporter in mainstream journalism. Shilts unapologetically approached his reporting as he had approached his earlier life – that information granted power and understanding and journalists played a key role in conveying that information. Important questions remain about whether Shilts helped or hindered the understanding of AIDS in the context of the gay community, with serious reservations raised about his use of the “Patient Zero” posit. He was praised, however, for advocacy for gay rights via Conduct Unbecoming.

Social Movements and Equality Seeking: The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

AbstractThis article examines the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on social movement politics in Canada using the case of the gay liberation movement. Drawing on the comparative social movement literature, the article situates equality seeking as a strategy and meaning game that legitimates new political identities and that is aimed at mobilizing a movement's constituency. The article demonstrates that equality seeking was a strategy and a meaning frame that was deployed in the lesbian and gay rights movement (exemplified by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s) prior to the entrenchment of the Charter. Thus, it concludes that some claims about the Charter's impact on social movement organizing have been exaggerated.

Eugene Days

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Stoner
Keyword(s):  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Gay Pride ◽  
Student Politics ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

Shilts enrols at University of Oregon and quickly engages with the Eugene Gay People’s Alliance. Early attempts to start a gay liberation movement among Oregon students, including the university’s first-ever Gay Pride Week. He loses a later bid for Student Body President under a theme of “Come Out for Shilts.” Shilts embraces a “gay centric” approach to schoolwork and his life, living fully out despite some miscues, convinced heterosexuals are unaccepting of homosexuals because they lack understanding or knowledge of gays and lesbians. Oregon classmates recall Shilts’s transition from student politics to journalism. Shilts finds being “out” in conflict with his dreams of a career in mainstream journalism. Shilts writes about a summer job at a gay bathhouse.

Growing old as a gay man: how life has changed for the gay liberation generation

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 2229-2250 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTHONY LYONS ◽  
SAMANTHA CROY ◽  
CATHERINE BARRETT ◽  
CAROLYN WHYTE
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Related Stigma

ABSTRACTMen in the gay liberation generation are approaching or entering older age. Being at the forefront of gay rights movements since the 1970s and 1980s, this generation has experienced dramatic changes in gay life. The present study aimed to provide a greater understanding of this generation by examining some of the ways these men perceive their changing lives. Participants included 439 Australian gay-identified men aged 50 years and older who completed an online survey of their health and wellbeing. These men gave unrestricted open-ended responses to a question on how life had changed for them as a gay man since being aged in their twenties. Responses were analysed qualitatively using a thematic analysis approach to identify main themes. Participants expressed many positive changes to their lives, including greater public- and self-acceptance of their sexuality, greater confidence and self-esteem, and more freedom for same-sex relationships. However, some men expressed a loss of gay community compared to their younger years and a perception that the younger generation under-appreciated the struggles they had endured. Age- and HIV-related stigma from within the gay community, as well as a loss of sexual attractiveness, also emerged as concerns for some participants. These findings may assist researchers, health professionals and aged care services to further understand the needs and experiences of this older generation of gay men.

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