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Author:

Sears, James T. (James Thomas), 1951-

Title:

Behind the mask of the Mattachine : the Hal Call chronicles and the early movement for homosexual emancipation / James T. Sears.

Publisher:

Harrington Park Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxi, 586 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Call, Hal,---2000.
Gay activists--United States--Biography.--Biography.
Mattachine Society--History.
Gay liberation movement--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Logos, eros, and psyche -- 1: Relationships. Who was Hal Call? ; The final visit ; In a dream ; Q&A -- 2: Foundations. German roots ; Boyhood ; Egos and eros ; Making contacts ; Three-cornered conversation ; War buddies ; The Fifth Order ; Letters home ; Coming out -- 3: Mattachine (1950-1953). Organizing in the Bay Area ; Cracks in the foundation ; Conventional wisdom ; Chuck and Gerry ; Conflict across the Bay ; On the edge of midnight ; The "unravelment of dreams" ; Q&A II ; Mattachine melee ; Gerry's farewell ; Moments in time -- 4: Sexualities. 1973: Theater of the absurd ; 1964-1965: Our man Flint ; 1954: Pan-Graphic ; 1985: Sexual rebels ; 2000: Harold and Hal ; 1956: Fear and respectability ; 1957: Game of fools ; January 28, 1958: Hal's turn ; 1958: Bitchery-butchery ; 1959: Calling shots, dispelling darkness, going public ; 2006: A candid conversation across gay generations ; 1960: Verboten ; 1960: A house divided ; 1961: The rejected ; 1967: The furtive fraternity ; The mask of desire.

Series:

Gay and lesbian studies

ISBN:

9781560231875
1560231874 (soft : alk. paper)
9781560231868
1560231866 (hard : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)64595919

LCCN:

2006008060

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)