The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction | 2016 | Winner |
About This Book
A comprehensive narrative history of the American gay rights movement from the 1950s McCarthyite purges through the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, based on hundreds of interviews with activists, lawyers, politicians, and ordinary people who fought for equality. Lillian Faderman's landmark account of a civil rights movement that changed America. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award.
About the Author
Lillian Faderman is an American author and historian of LGBTQ history and culture. Born in 1940 in the Bronx, New York, she studied at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at California State University, Fresno, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of lesbian and gay American history. Read more →
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