THE GAY MYSTIQUE: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality

Type

Book

Authors

Peter Fisher

ISBN 10

0812816463

ISBN 13

9780812816464

Tags

Sexuality, Gay & Lesbian

Description

This groundbreaking 1972 book chronicles the early, vibrant post-Stonewall movement and explains homosexuality to straight people and to homosexually-oriented people still coming to terms with themselves. Describing his intense joy marching in the Christopher Street Liberation Day march in 1970 that commemorated the first anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, Fisher wrote, "There's no going back after that. You can't feel those things and take them back to the closet and nurse them. When you know what it really means to be free, you know that freedom is life. Do you know how it tastes to be alive for the first time? Oppression in any form requires the complicity of the oppressed. To come out is to refuse to oppress oneself, refuse to play the game." - from Amzon

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