Gay Rights and Moral Panic The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality [Paperback]

Using the 1977 campaign against the Dade County Florida gay rights ordinance as a focal point, this book provides an examination of the emergence of the modern lesbian and gay American movement, the challenges it posed to the accepted American notions of sexuality, and how American society reacted in turn.Lesbians, Gay Men, and The Minority Rights RevolutionThe Homosexual in the American Public Imaginiation, 1977Gay Rights Come to MiamiThe Campaign BeginsThe VoteSt. Paul, Wichita, EugeneCalifornia, Seattle, MiamiThe Gay Rights Debate

The overall portrait Fejes weaves is thorough, copiously documented, compelling, and valuable for all who wish to deepen their knowledge of U.S. gay history. - The Journal of American Culture

This is an estimable book, the reading of which will benefit any historian of the post-World War II United States. - The Journal of American History

Gay Rights and Moral Panic is a significant scholarly effort that illuminates the multifaceted dimensions of the gay rights debate in Dade County and its reverberation across the nation, and indeed around the world. This is an important book that is foundational for those interested in twentieth century LGBT history, social justice and human rights campaigns, the role of the religious right in late twentieth century politics, and the intersection of historicity, media representations, and identity. - Women s Studies in Communication

Histories of the gay rights movement tend to concentrate on the Stonewall Riots, but Fejes offers a different perspective on the struggle for equal rights for gays and lesbians, as well as an account of the rise of the conservative Christian movement that explores in depth its relationship to the modern gay rights movement. After reading this extended narrative of political struggles to secure human rights for gays and lesbians, readers will be inclined explore how the struggle for gay rights compares to ló¿