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The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture - Softcover
Review
"An impressive return to form from the founding father of queer historical studies. . . ."
--Gay Times
"[A] valuable exposure to a mind and heart constantly turned toward understanding, communicating and synthesizing for us the problems and triumphs that fighting for our rights entails."
--H.E.B., "Frontiers"
"D'Emilio is at his best when he writes history that is also his story, and the first part of the book. . . . is most palpitating when the subject touches him directly. . . ."
--Louis Godbout, "Labour/Le Travail"
"John D'Emilio's writing should be required for every gay, lesbian, bi or trans person. . . . "The World Turned" is a profound work that provides historical context for a decade that was truly transforming."
--Scott Blaine Swenson, "Lambda Book Report"
"D'Emilio's latest collection of essays adds up to significantly more than the sum of its parts. . . . This volume is an eloquen
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John D'Emilio
Professor of history, women's, and gender studies
John D'Emilio (born 1948) is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William Leuchtenburg.[1] He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998[2] and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997.
Honors and awards
[edit]D'Emilio was awarded the Stonewall Book Award in 1984[3] for his most widely cited book, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, which is considered the definitive history of the U.S. homophile movement from 1940 to 1970. His biography of the civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace
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For gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the United States, the twenty-first century has brought dramatic changes: the end of sodomy laws, the elimination of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a move toward recognition of same-sex marriage, Gay-Straight Alliances in thousands of high schools, and an explosion of visibility in the media and popular culture. All of this would have been unimaginable to those living just a few decades ago. Yet, at the same time, the American political struktur has grown ever more conservative, and increasing economic inequality has been a defining feature of the new century.
A pioneering scholar of gay history, John D’Emilio reflects in this wide-ranging collection of essays upon the social, cultural, and political changes provoked by LGBT activism. He offers provokativ questions and historical analyses: What can we learn from a life-long activist like Bayard Rustin, who questioned the wisdom of “identity politics”? Was Richard Nixon a “g