This work traces the development of lesbian and gay politics in the US during the Reagan and Bush administrations. It combines a critical commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles, interviews and reports. The work: chronicles the debates that shaped the radical lesbian and gay movement - from the inauguration of Ronald Reagan and the abortion rights movement to the founding of the ACT-UP and the recent explosion on the scene of Lesbian Avengers; documents the political history of the era; provides insights into lesbian and gay cultural developments; highlights the intrinsic homophobia of American society during the Reagan/Bush years, and provides the basis for discussions about the ways forward in the fight for equality in Britain and the rest of the world; and includes detailed and illustrated excerpts from the Lesbian Avenger's Handbook.

My American History

Politics & Social Sciences

Schulman, Sarah

Social Sciences

Sterling*+ Publishing Company

ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice.Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize."This is not reverent, definitive history. This is a tactician's bible." --Parul Sehgal,The New York Times "A masterpiece of historical research and intellectual analysis that creates many windows into both a vanished world and the one that emerged from it, the one we live in now." --Alexander Chee Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman'sLet the Record Showis the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled--and beat--The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists,Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

History

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Shimmer

Manhattan, 1948. From the garlic-scented walkups of Little Italy to the Times Square Automat to the plush booths of the Stork Club, three New Yorkers strive to make their mark on the city under the growing shadow of the Red Scare.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Perennial

Set against the backdrop of post-World War II New York City, three people--Sylvia Golubowsky, an aspiring reporter waiting for her big break; Austin Van Cleeve, a gossip columnist who wields a wicked pen; and Cal Byfield, a cook who is determined to create a Negro theater on Broadway--cross paths in the most unexpected ways.

United States

Bard

My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years

My American History contains pieces written between 1981 and 1992, that document the expectations and imaginations of activists as they struggled, under impossible odds and an ever-growing opposition, to articulate a movement for freedom and dignity during the Reign of Reaganism. Also included is the Lesbian Avengers Handbook.

Americas

Routledge

My American History contains pieces written between 1981 and 1992, that document the expectations and imaginations of activists as they struggled, under impossible odds and an ever-growing opposition, to articulate a movement for freedom and dignity during the Reign of Reaganism. Also included is the Lesbian Avengers Handbook.

The tough colorful lesbian culture of Manhattan's Lower East Side finds a go-go dancer, a well-read hairdresser, a trigger-happy cashier, dangerous actress, and a Priscilla Presley impersonator brought together in this story of murder and loss of love

After Delores: A Novel

Plume

People in Trouble

A New York City love triangle forms the center of a literary universe peopled by a Guardian Angels-like vigilante group, a Chinatown cowgirl, and ex-leather queen, a real-estate mogul, and, at the center, Kate, Peter, and Molly, as they confront love in the time of AIDS

Still smarting from an emotionally bruising relationship, Anna O., a lesbian, adopts a male persona, becoming "Doc," a post-Freudian psychoanalyst whose desire to cure others and change the world becomes an escape from her past

Empathy

An exploration of how gay men and lesbians are abandoned by their families as soon as AIDS enters their lives, and the courageous and unusual ways they lead their lives, despite this loss.

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Books by Schulman, Sarah

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My American History

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Shimmer

Shimmer

My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years

My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years

After Delores: A Novel

People in Trouble

Empathy

Rat Bohemia