Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman

Author:Lillian Faderman [Faderman, Lillian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism/Gay and Lesbian
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-09-09T22:00:00+00:00

During the time when the black, the poor, and the student have been actively confronting the systems which deny and demean them, we have been (sometimes) writing letters to our congressmen. While others have been openly challenging discriminating statutes, we have been (sometimes) satisfied with not being persecuted. While other groups seize the initiative and therefore fight their battle on their own terms, we wait (sometimes) in dread, always in a defensive posture, never prepared.

The League advocated a more aggressive stand, more fighting on the front lines, more face-to-face challenges.10 But there were still only a few homosexuals who would take up that program. Something dramatic needed to happen to convince more of them that despite concerted efforts for years on the part of the medical establishment, the churches, and the law to let them know that they were nothing but sick or sinful or lawbreakers, they were an aggrieved minority with as much right to demand fairness as other minorities and that if they would show themselves, others would join them.

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