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Crédit image: John Loughery at BookExpo at the Javits Center in New York City, May 2019. By Rhododendrites - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79387556

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A real mix. I wouldn't have selected all of these, but enjoyed many, especially Auden's piece on detective stories, King's Birmingham jail letter, and Asia's essay on recognizing herself as a writer.
 
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lschiff | 1 autre critique | Sep 24, 2023 |
Like her contemporary, Fr. Thomas Merton, there is renewed interest in the life and writings of Dorothy Day. With this comes a new detailed biography by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph. It is a full biography. The reader gains a focused picture of Day, the people she knew, the books she read, and the struggles she had. For anyone with interest in Day or the Catholic Workers movement, this book will be required reading.

This book will be released in March 2020. I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for a fair and impartial review.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Steve_Walker | Sep 13, 2020 |
'The Other Side of Silence' does a remarkable job of covering the history of gay men in America from the turn of the century to the 1970s. As this was published in 1998 Loughery made a wise decision to shy away from commenting on recent years other than a few lines on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and some recent visibility in pop culture. I was surprised that the 1980s and the AIDS epidemic was given such a brief chapter - reflecting how much research has appeared in the last 20 years? - but it was a powerful one nonetheless. The book is startlingly from another era -so much has been accomplished- but this is valuable reading to any gay man wishing to understand where the rights movement began, not springing entire from the Stonewall riots.

'Other Side's strength is its breadth of coverage of gay literature and the earliest gay rights organizations. A lot of research went into this. The book focuses on gay men's lives, but he does not exclude the contributions of lesbians and others. He addresses the failings of group after group over decades to create a cohesive movement and to acknowledge their iniquity towards non-white, non-males and those who didn't subscribe to traditional masculinity. The radicals who bristled at the order for men to wear suits and women to wear skirts while picketing the White House were uncomfortable accepting the input of the effeminate or the cross-dressers. This and sustained ignorance of white privilege eventually put an end to most organizations.

For one reason or the other (take your pick) I took a long hiatus from this book about half-way through, therefore there are going to be some nuances I've forgotten. The staggering amount of prejudice and predation of law enforcement and the military is impossible to cover in-depth, and too depressing. Why all that bother? Unfortunately there are still places in America that have plenty of that old paranoia and fear to spare and are only slowly being swept away. There are a lot more histories out there these days, but this one is too valuable to pass over.
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ManWithAnAgenda | 1 autre critique | Feb 18, 2019 |
I skimmed this for a class last fall, and am just now getting around to reading it in-depth. Upon full reading, though, I'm much more impressed than I was the beginning. Loughery pares a complex history down to a coherent narrative that neither imposes a "progress" story nor bemoans "culture nowadays." He gives a factual overview, but fills it with emotional stories. He focuses on a central story about mostly white gay men in America, but is always aware that men of color, bisexuals, lesbians, and trans people are part of this story, calling out the mainstream gay groups for actively excluding those people. He also maintains an awareness of regional differences and philosophical divisions, even while creating a national story.

The book was written in the 1990s, and Loughery's final reflections strongly reflect that, but I appreciate how strongly that position comes through rather than being buried or misleading and thus making the book less useful for modern readers. With that clarity, The Other Side of Silence remains vital basic reading for anyone interested in gay/queer history or how the American situation became what it is today.
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FFortuna | 1 autre critique | May 29, 2016 |

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