WOMS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: When We Rise, Cleve Jones, Allen Ginsberg
23 May 2018
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Lecture 19
When We Rise
Cleve Jones (1954-)
• Wrote When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
o He goes to school, clubs, bookstores, San Francisco to learn about the
community (Life Magazine 1971)
o Coming of age where he was raised
o Bad mental state/suiidal efoe LGBT oeet, the he ealized he as’t
alone
o He grew up in the suburbs, not a lot of diversity
What was life like for the LGBT community in the 1950s and 1960s?
• o aio flags, o haates o TV, o eleted offiials, o essages of compassion
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• Theory that homosexuality can be cured as a mental illness
• Homosexuality listed as a pathological behavior in the DSM, 1952-1973
• Atascadero, CA – Hooseual Dahau
Witch Hunts of the 1950s
• The Lavender Scare – trying to remove homosexuals from federal employment, military,
etc.
• LBGT McCarthyism
• 1953 – Eisenhower signed executive order banning all homosexuals from working in
federal government
• Conflated homosexuality with communism
• Felt it was a matter of national security
Laws Relating to Sodomy
• Sodomy as a crime in every state until 1962
• Not just anal sex but oral sex and other sex acts
• Initially meant to target both heterosexuals and heterosexuals for deviant behavior
• In the 1970s, targeted gay community
• Laurence v. Texas (2003)
Mike Wallace: The Hooseuals 9
• Aired in 1967 as episode of CBS reports
• Anchored by Mike Wallace
• Meant to be an exposé on homosexuality
• Has become controversial for its portrayal of gay life
Life Magazie: Hooseuals i Reolt 9
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• Post-Stonewall
• Stuck out to Cleve Jones
Bookstores & Literature
• Mary Renault Fie fo Heae
• Alfred Kinsey
• Allen Ginsberg Aeia 9
• Aeia, I’ puttig uee shoulde to the heel
Gay Liberation Arizona Desert (GLAD)
• Homosexual commune in the 1970s
Film
The Bos i the Bad 9
Magazines
The Adoate 9
Terminology
• Homophile
• Changing use of terms over time
• Eal seologists populaized the te hooseual
o “oe ated to take the ephasis off of the od seual i hooseual ad
instead focus on love
• Homophile was popular in the 50s and 60s
Kinsey Report
• Challenged norms
• % of ales eated seuall to males and females
• 37% of males had at least one homosexual experience
• 10% of males were exclusively homosexual for at least 3 years
The Homophile Movement
• Henry Hay – oe of Kise’s iteieees
• he aied the Kise epot ith hi eehee, like a religious zealot carrying
aoud a Bile
• Said homosexuals were disenfranchised without a group identity; they need to organize
• e ae a oppessed ultual ioit
• Mattachine Society – secret fraternity, from medieval and early Renaissance era, folk
jesters who wore masks when they performed
o Based on the structure of the Masons and Communists
Henry Hay & the Mattachine Society
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Document Summary
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