ISBN:
978-1-5261-6244-1
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 349 Seiten ;
,
22 cm.
Edition:
Revised and updated edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.76/620941
Keywords:
Great Britain
;
Male homosexuality / Great Britain / 20th century / History
;
Gay men / Great Britain / 20th century / History
;
Homosexuality / Law and legislation / Great Britain / 20th century
;
Gay liberation movement / Great Britain / 20th century
;
Gay men
;
Male homosexuality
;
History
Abstract:
"Odd Men Out is a social, cultural and political history of gay men living in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. It covers the period from the circumstances leading up to the appointment of the Wolfenden Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution in 1954 to the emergence of the British Gay Liberation Front in the early 1970s. It looks at contemporary public, political and legal attitudes towards male homosexuality and gay men. It also focuses on the emergence of gay identities, the opening up and limitations of social spaces and contacts, the operation of the law, and the legal reform process up to and beyond the partial decriminalisation of adult male homosexuality in 1967. The book draws on a wealth of source material from archives, newspapers, magazines, memoirs, diaries, oral histories, interviews, television broadcasts, radio programmes, films and plays. It also includes interviews with social and political commentators, writers, directors, actors and others about their recollections and experiences during the period."--Publisher
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