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Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution (2012)

by Linda Hirshman(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061965502 (ISBN13: 9780061965500)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: Garbage. I spent most of the first 250 pages wishing that this were a little more scholarly and a little less disjointed. You can tell a compelling narrative history without cursing and without using phrases like "omigod". It was a struggle to get through the last 100 pages, as the author bashes Obama over and over, unjustly. She demeans all of the efforts of the gay friendliest President in history while comparing the president of the Log Cabin Republicans to Thurgood Marshall. Somebody, somewhere will write a better account of the struggles of LGBT folks. You're better off waiting until then.
review 2: An amazing saga, tragic, complex, often heroic. Sometimes the thicket of tiny, fractious political organizations are reminiscent of Ten Days That Shook... more the World, difficult to follow but still interesting. The comparison to the civil rights and feminist movements is well nuanced, but sometimes pushed a bit too hard. The sometimes dense political, philosophical, sociological, psychological narrative is relieved by blunt statements such as in a discussion of the Romer court decision, “...the law infringed fundamental civil rights, it did not even meet the low standard of basic rationality much less show a damn good reason, and it was enacted because gay people made the voters puke.” Not quite a must read, but close. less

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