After The Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred Of Gays In The 90s PDF
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HOW AMERICA WILL CONQUER ITS FEAR & HATRED OF CAYS IN THE 90s — Canad* »*» X twenty-five million gays-onetm every ten c.mens-make up largest* and last, outcast m.nonty_ Wha would it take to transform our fierce y anti-gay society into one where homosex¬ uals could live freely, openly, happily now, and in the AIDS-haunted America well know over the next decade? It would take an aggressive new battle plan for gay rights—the stunningly sys¬ tematic and controversial blueprint pre¬ sented in After the Ball. Marshall Kirlc and Hunter Madsen write with wit and anger on the twentieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, where the gay revolution first began. The authors, Harvard-trained social scientists, reveal why the revolution has failed, so far, to defeat homophobia and “homohatred” in America. Their hard-hitting expose faults both straights and gay activists for the current mess and shows how deeply gays have suffered as a result. Dismissing the movement’s outworn techniques in favor of carefully calcu¬ lated public relations propaganda, After the Ball unveils the key psy- chological principles and national strat¬ egies that gays must follow to conquer bigotry in the 1990s. At the same time, Kirk and Madsen propose a clear-eyed agenda to reform gay culture itself, by eliminating common misbehaviors that hurt other gays and needlessly bonow (continued on back flap) \ 1 DOUBLE DAY New York L o n d o n Toronto S y d n c y Auckland THE How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s MARSHALL KIRK AND HUNTER MADSEN Ph.D. * Published by Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc., . 666 Fifth Avenue, New York. New York Doubleday and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Kirk, Marshall. After the ball: how America will conquer its hatred and fear of homosexuals in the '90's / Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. —1st ed. p. cm. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-385-23906-8 1* Gay liberation movement—United States. 2. Gays—United States—Public opinion. 3. Homophobia—United States— Prevention. 4. Public opinion—United States. I. Madsen, Hunter. II. Title HQ76.8.U5K57 1989 306.7'66 dcl9 88-3686( CIP BOOK DESIGN BY CAROL MALCOLM copyright © 1989 by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen All Rights Reserved printed in the united JUNE 1989 STATES OP AMERICA tTOST EDITION BG
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