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Search - Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies)

Behind the Mask of the Mattachine The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation - Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies
Author: James T. Sears

A 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalist! Take a revealing look at gay history--and the man who helped kickstart gay activism in today's society The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America's first openly gay journalist and the man most r... more »esponsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, the Hal Call Chronicles travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of the modern homosexual movement and the lesser-known individuals who started it. This stunning chronicle gives the unexpurgated history of the activists who organized homosexuals--using the biography of the controversial Hal Call as its springboard. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine provides a revealing illustration of gay life in the past through an intergenerational history of the early gay men's movement. Noted author James T. Sears generously weaves oral history, seldom seen historical documents, and rare photographs to provide a rich behind-the-scenes look at the first wave of Mattachine activists and the emerging gay pornography industry. This historical chronicle of a previously neglected era is packed with details of Call's personal struggles, his celebration of the phallus, and his assertion linking homophobia and heteronormativity to our culture's sex-negative tradition. The reader is transported to the underworld of youthful hustlers, porno kingpins, spurned lovers, sex clubs, cruising grounds, secretive societies, and personal in-fighting over the direction of gay activism. This enthralling narrative is impeccably referenced. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine examines: The origins of the Mattachine Society

The Mattachine Foundation of Harry Hay and others of the "Fifth Order"

The Weimar Republic in Germany--the roots of the modern homosexual movement

Networking of homosexuals through correspondence clubs and speakeasies in Depression-era America

The intense rivalries between San Francisco and New York City Mattachine groups

Censorship of books, magazines, and films

And much more! The book explores the lives of three generations of pre-Stonewall gay activists: Magnus Hirschfeld and Benedikt Friedländer

Henry Gerber and Manual boyFrank

Harry Hay and Hal Call Behind the Mask of the Mattachine puts a needed spotlight on a time in lesser-known gay history, and makes illuminating reading for historians and gay persons interested in the history of the gay men's movement.

ISBN-13: 9781560231875
ISBN-10: 1560231874
Publication Date: 11/30/2006
Pages: 586
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Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Book Type: Paperback
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