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02522aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 EF40D266DBC311EBBFC637695AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210703010009 008 200820t20212020nyua b 0|1 0 eng d 020 $a 9781250798503 020 $a 1250798507 035 $a (OCoLC)1184236786 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HQ75.8.K35 $b C47 2021 082 04 $a 306.76/6092 $2 23 100 1 $a Cervini, Eric, $d 1992- $e author. 245 14 $a The deviant's war : $b the homosexual vs. the United States of America / $c Eric Cervini. 250 $a First edition. 250 $a First Picador paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2021. 300 $a 494 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job. Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back. 520 $a Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees. It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance. Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory. 600 10 $a Kameny, Frank, $d 1925-2011. 650 0 $a Gays $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Gay rights $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Gays $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z United States. 650 $a HISTORY / Social History 650 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies 650 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical 941 $a 3 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20230621010229.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20221008011652.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20210703010330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EF40D266DBC311EBBFC637695AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search