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Toby Marotta

Auteur de The Politics of Homosexuality

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A well written look at the complexities of the early homophile and liberation movement. Marotta describes the conflicting desires and messages of organizations and their leaders. The book documents the effort to educate homosexuals and transform society. While I recommend reading the entire work, Part III "The Lesbian Feminist Movement" provides an insightful look into the movement; it also succinctly illustrates many of the internal challenges of current LGBTQ organizations.
 
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MichaelC.Oliveira | 1 autre critique | Feb 23, 2014 |
This book is a brilliant, if dense, analysis of the political and cultural themes that run through the various incarnations of the homosexual rights struggle from the beginnings of the homophile movement in the 1950s to the period at the end of the 70s just before AIDS. Marotta identifies trends and political/cultural biases and views that wove together to create the modern gay and lesbian movement and that, simultaneously, clashed in various ways that kept undoing that movement. E.g., political reformers joined with cultural radical hippies in the aftermath of Stonewall to gain strength, numbers and visibility, yet the goals of the two groups were fundamentally inconsistent: the politicos worked for respectability that would change laws, the hippies transgressed that respectability for the sake of "raising consciousness" and bringing on "the Revolution"; the result was a series of gay community organizations vying with one another for attention. Marotta's analysis is insightful and explanatory.

This book was based on Toby Marotta's Harvard dissertation. I am proud to have worked as Toby's writing assistant in transforming the academic exposition into readable prose.

This book was--unfortunately for all kinds of reasons--overshadowed by the arrival of AIDS. Actually Marotta's political/cultural themes showed up in AIDS organizing as well (of course!), but the history had changed forever. The Politics of Homosexuality does present the context in which all activism since has transpired. It ought to be required reading for activists even in such later political struggles as same sex marriage and gays in the military. The same trends and biases and utopian goals reappear.
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tobyjohnso | 1 autre critique | May 25, 2011 |
A groundbreaking book about a groundbreaking college class. Students all over America, including from Harvard, were graduating into the "Summer of Love" when everything began to change.

I'm proud to have worked as Toby Marotta's assistant on this book, editing his extensive taped interviews and conversations with his Harvard classmates into literate text. The book was done in the late 70s, so ten years after graduation.

The course of cultural transformation -- especially for gay men -- is apparent in that decade. This book is a wonderful statement about the maturation of gay consciousness in the period after Stonewall. And, of course, it was iconoclastic when it first came out: Who knew there were homosexuals at Harvard? This book helped wake up American culture (and Harvard culture) to the reality of gay consciousness and challenged stereotypes.

And the guys Toby interviewed were really appealing men. It's neat to see into their lives.
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tobyjohnso | 1 autre critique | May 25, 2011 |
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What I and other befriended homosexual classmates sounded like back when we were 35-year-olds.
 
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toby.marotta | 1 autre critique | May 19, 2011 |

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