Gay Rights and Moral Panic The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality
Description
Using the 1977 campaign against the Dade County Florida gay rights ordinance as a focal point, this book provides an examination of the emergence of the modern lesbian and gay American movement, the challenges it posed to the accepted American notions of sexuality, and how American society reacted in turn.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesHistoryUnited StatesModernPsychologyClinical PsychologySocial HistoryWomen's StudiesAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
2008Book
Author(s)Fred Fejes
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781403980694
LanguageEnglish
