By Margaret Cruikshank
This is often one of many first books at the circulate written particularly for introductory scholars. It examines homosexual and lesbian liberation from 3 assorted views: as a sexual freedom stream, as a political flow and as a flow of rules.
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If they go too far, they w i l l be pushed back, as the phrase "testing the l i m i t s o f tolerance" implies. T h i s c o v e r illustrates the inadequacy o f m a i n s t r e a m n e w s treatm e n t o f gay issues. Lesbians and gay m e n cannot even tell w h o a m o n g t h e m has been m u r d e r e d b y reading m a i n s t r e a m newspapers unless the v i c t i m is p r o m i n e n t . F o r that i n f o r m a t i o n and for all issues c o n c e r n i n g t h e m , they r e l y o n their o w n national periodicals and newspapers s u c h as The Advocate and Gay Community News and newspapers i n m a j o r cities s u c h as the Bay Area Reporter and the Washington Blade.
C a t h o l i c s and J e w s are m o r e assimilated i n t o m a i n s t r e a m A m e r i c a n life than they were fifty years ago, and even c o m m u n i s t s are not v e r y threatening any m o r e . W o m e n w h o had abortions w e r e once c o n d e m n e d , but n o w m o s t A m e r i c a n s favor l e g a l ized a b o r t i o n . Fundamentalists need enemies w h o m they can c o n v e r t to m y t h i c figures o f e v i l . " It is u n l i k e l y that F a l w e l l o r his f o l l o w ers c o u l d seriously have m a i n t a i n e d this v i e w i n the presence o f real people w h o are gay.
T h e m i l i t a r y requires b l i n d o b e d i ence to fashion efficient armies, and u n q u e s t i o n i n g obedience to a u t h o r i t y is also expected o f fundamentalists and C a t h o l i c s . T h e m i l i t a r y and the anti-gay religions base their objections to h o m o s e x u a l i t y o n their authority to c o n d e m n , not u p o n evidence. T h a t is w h y their c o n d e m n a t i o n s persisted l o n g after psychiatrists abandoned their b e l i e f that h o m o s e x u a l s are a b n o r m a l .