I'd been writing gay poetry and stories for several years and was told no one would ever publish them. I quickly became involved with artists, writers, dancers, and poets, and in November of 1969, joined New York's groundbreaking Gay Liberation Front and the staff of Come Out!, the world's first gay liberation newspaper. In August, of 1966, a month before my 19th birthday, I moved to New York. To escape the South’s violent homophobia, at 17, in 1965, after a painful year at the University of Georgia, I hitchhiked from Savannah to San Francisco-an adventure I recalled as being "like Mark Twain with drag queens.” I spent a year living on the street, sleeping between parked cars or in SRO hotels, doing any job I could, and loving the freedom of it. By nine or ten, I knew I was attracted to boys. Highlighting both how much and how little has changed since Stonewall, this work is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of sexuality and the legal and social status of lesbians and gays in contemporary America.Originally from Savannah, Georgia, I grew up Southern, Jewish, economically impoverished (after, when I was 11, my father died of cancer) and gay. In the tradition of Sisterhood is Powerful, Out of the Closets presents, in their own words, the views, values attitudes, aspirations, and circumstances of the early generation of gay and lesbian liberationists. Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History City University of New York Filled with Joyous self-affirmation, angry manifestos, and searching personal reflections, this classic work provides a close look at the individuals and ideologies of this important social movement. A pioneering anthology that had a profound impact in its first incarnation in 1972, it still speaks powerfully to the condition of gay men and lesbians in American life, recounting sorrows and joys, offering solace and strategy, celebrating the remarkable diversity and creativity of tho. It is wonderful to have Out of the Closets again available.
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