T-125-32 Gay Power

Foreword

THE NEW HOMOSEXUALS—

THEY’RE POWERFUL AND POLITICAL

Say good-bye to the “fags,” “queers,” and “pansies.” In their place march the New Homosexuals, determined to smash down stereotypes of old and to fight against the degradations of name-calling, job discrimination, alienation, and aggression. Their battle cry is “Out of the closets and into the streets.” GAY IS GOOD. GAY POWER!

Who are the New Homosexuals and what do they want? How did they live before the Stonewall riot—the event that is to Gay Liberation what Bastille Day is to the French? Is homosexuality an “illness” or a “preference?” Why do some people become gay? What are their relationships with their families? What is “aversion therapy” and how do they feel about it?

The author of this compelling book on the new homosexuality in America today discusses these questions and many more. His in-depth interviews with homosexuals—both male and female—reveal how they handle their sex lives and love relationships and what they think about political action, psychoanalysis, marriage, and adoption.

Will homosexuals run for public office? Indeed they will—and we are going to hear a lot more from them in the future.

This is an original publication, not a reprint.

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“It was the mirror image of a straight campus protest rally. The Columbia College auditorium was jam-packed with serious faces. The faces were mostly young, framed by straggly sideburns and frizzy “electro-shock” hair-dos. They belonged to a miscellaneous assortment of people: scruffy-looking student radicals in their tie-dye tee shirts and embroidered Levi’s opulent East Side fags in their knit jumpsuits; even a few dykish-looking co-eds in gypsy blouses and pantaloons. Taken together, they were a noisy audience.”

“They could have been there to vent their rage over the Kent State massacre or to demand a U.S. exit from Cambodia and Laos. Instead, they shrieked the homosexual war cry: “Gimme a Gee!”

“Gimme an A!”

“Gimme a Why!”

Why have homosexuals come out of the closet? Do they think they can make changes? Here is the latest word on the newest liberation movement in America.