01:510:265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Edward Sagarin, The Homosexuals, Gay Bar

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:265
• Professor: Professor Mitchell

Document Summary

This week"s readings include the homosexuals in america by donald webster cory, Preservation of innocence by james baldwin, and we too must love and we walk alone by ann aldrich. This essay will focus on the nature and main ideas of these readings and explore the areas that stood out to me the most while reading. In preservation of innocence , the author james baldwin challenges the definition of. The author points out that human kind is very quick to label something as unnatural whenever they witness something out of the ordinary. Instead of embracing the diversity, as a society, we tend to call it names, shame and humiliate it. Baldwin states, it is not possible to have it both ways, to use nature at one time as the final arbiter of human conduct and at another to oppose her as angrily as we do (baldwin, 1).