In 1969, massive rioting over police harassment at a New York gay bar transformed the gay rights movement into a powerful protest force of the magnitude of the women’s and civil rights crusades.
But what few people know is that more than 100 years earlier, a Germ an man became the forefather of the gay liberation movement when he offered the notion that sexual orientation is a biological condition. This history and other accounts of the gay rights movement are detailed in the “Historical Dictionary of the Gay Liberation Movement,” a book by Professor of Political Science Ronald Hunt.
Hunt’s 241-page book, which focuses on the liberation of the gay man, is written in encyclopedia form, highlighting the movement’s leaders and groups, the status of gay rights in various countries, laws throughout history that have attempted to thwart homosexuals and victorious court cases that have granted rights to homosexuals.
