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The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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88/100Author:
Eric Cervini
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
June 2, 2020
A historian unravels the secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall when, in 1957, astronomer Frank Kameny was fired by the U.S. Defense Department because of his presumed homosexuality. Unlike many others before him, though, Kameny fought back.
What The Reviewers Say
... brilliant.
... falls short of perfection. But not by much.
If the L.G.B.T.Q. movement had saints, a Jewish homosexual atheist scientist named Franklin Kameny would have an exalted place in the pantheon.
...a brisk, clear-eyed new biography.
