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Gallo free download Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement Nearly fifteen years before the birth of gay liberation the Daughters of Bilitis DOB was the world’s first organization committed to lesbian visibility and empowerment Like its predominantly gay male counterpart the Mattachine Society DOB was launched in response to the oppressive anti homosexual climate of the McCarthy era when lesbian and gay people were arrested fired from jobs and had their children taken away sim. from the libraryfrom the library computerBooklist ReviewsDespite continuing intense racial segregation in the late 1950s and early 1960s the groundbreaking lesbian organization the Daughters of Bilitis DOB provided opportunities for women to work together and socialize without color bars and with less of the armor of conformity outside the home that the concurrent cold war climate of fear mandated Against a repressive backdrop of homophobic bar raids arrests and firings the initially secret society of northern California lesbians was founded in 1955 as a social club that in 1956 produced the nation s first lesbian newsletterThe Ladder So doing DOB made an all important outreach that broke through fear and isolation to affirm lesbians throughout America albeit via protective pseudonyms DOB and The Ladder also spread through word of mouth expanding for 20 years into a national sociopolitical effort with regional chapters that paved the way for the lesbian rights movement and helped change history Gallo s engrossing detailed history is an essential addition to the popular literature of sociopolitical issues women s studies and gay lesbian history Reviewed November 1 2006 Copyright 2006 Booklist ReviewsChoice ReviewsGallo s excellent history of the Daughters of Bilitis brings deserved attention to a pioneering but neglected lesbian society The Daughters began as a private club in the highly repressive anti gay atmosphere of the 1950s but uickly turned to political activism Gallo traces the group s evolution and contributions to both gay and women s rights movements despite its extremely small size it rarely totaled than 300 members at one time She looks at the fractures that developed within the leadership over issues that continue to plague lesbian organizations today Should the club provide a place for lesbians to socialize or agitate for greater legal protection Should it concentrate on research to demonstrate that lesbians are just like the heterosexual population or protest unfair treatment Should it reject or embrace butchfemme roles Gallo does a particularly fine job of highlighting the irony of the Daughters demise In their formative years the suggestion that homosexuality was not evil was a daring move but by the mid 1960s pleas for acceptance struck the new generation of radical activists as uaint The movement that they helped make possible rejected the Daughters Summing Up Highly recommended All levelslibraries Copyright 2007 American Library AssociationPublishers Weekly ReviewsThe Daughters of Bilitis DOB may be little known today but Gallo makes clear how crucial this organization was to the nascent lesbian rights movement Beginning as a tiny San Francisco social club in 1955 the group soon organized local chapters in New York Los Angeles and beyond incubating many figures on the lesbian political and literary scene until the organization waned in the 1970s In this easy well ordered read Gallo draws on many interviews with pivotal DOB figures focusing less on juicy gossip than the tensions that drove the group s evolution lesbian commonality versus race class and ethnic differences political activism versus social activities collaboration with other homophile organizations versus independence women s rights versus gay rights Gallo gives considerable space to the history of The Ladder which began as a mimeographed newsletter and soon became a lively highly literate forum for lesbians nationally and even internationally She evokes the tense atmosphere of DOB s beginnings when being out was nearly synonymous with being outcast while highlighting the several black leaders of the group and how DOB found allies in San Francisco s religious community This is a respectful respectable look at an organization overdue for recognition NovPage 57 Copyright 2006 Reed Business InformationTable of Contents Acknowledgments ix A Note About Naming xv Prologue xvii ui vive 1 20 Climbing The Ladder 21 18 Some Facts About Lesbians 39 18 A Look at the Lesbian 57 20 Removing the Mask 77 16 A Conclave of Ladies with Crew Cuts 93 28 Ten Days in August 121 16 Changing Times 137 22 If That s All There Is 159 26 Lesbos Arise 185 22 Epilogue 207 8 Appendix Oral History Interviews 215 4 Bibliography 219 18 Endnotes 237 28 Index 265

review Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB read ê eBook or Kindle ePUB ↠ Marcia M. Gallo free download Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement Vement and the women who fought the church and state in order to change not only our nation’s perception of homosexuality but how lesbians see themselves Marcia Gallo has interviewed dozens of former DOB members many of whom have never spoken on record Through its leaders magazine and network of local chapters DOB played a crucial role in creating lesbian identity visibility and political strategies in Cold War Americ. This is a great book explaining the history of the lesbian rights movement starting in the 1950 s It s just a little dry for me and extremely detailed I skimmed through it and found the information very interesting just too much of it for meAs a side note I reuested this book through interlibrary loan and the title is actually wrong in the system it is called Different Daughters A Book by Mothers of Lesbians which is what I had wanted but I got this book instead

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review Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB read ê eBook or Kindle ePUB ↠ Marcia M. Gallo free download Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement Ply because of their sexual orientation It was against this political backdrop that a circle of San Francisco lesbians formed a private club where lesbians could meet others in a safe affirming setting The small social group evolved over the next two decades into a national organization that counted than a dozen chapters and laid the foundation for today’s lesbian rights movement Different Daughters chronicles this mo. I have a new book for College Girl She had popped in over the weekend and managed to snatch it up real uick The usual for her of course But I do wish to thank Seal Press for sending me Different Daughters Not Your Average Freedom FightersThis is a history of the lesbian rights movement in San Francisco California It was a organization called the Daughters of Bilitis or DOB And was from the 1950 s to the 1970 s Now College Girl was excited to be able to read this history in the eual rights movement Having finished off on the Harvey Milk history this last summer she has been sorta swimming around looking for her next bit of history to learnIn reading over Different Daughters I was interested in learning of these strong women who fought so hard for their eual rights I found that his started with only eight members Wow such a small group to make such a large impact The idea was to create a place they could be safe at And as us ladies do they would meet monthly to socialize share meals and talk over the issues within their community They eventually became a national organization A uniue feature of this book is the original works from The Ladder a newsletter that they had created This was a very motivating book and uite informative I am so happy that I have it to share with my College Girl