scholarly journals The discourse of liberation: Frames used in characterising the gay liberation movement in two South African newspapers

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (0) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Danger Mongie
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

Eugene Days

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Stoner
Keyword(s):  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Gay Pride ◽  
Student Politics ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

Shilts enrols at University of Oregon and quickly engages with the Eugene Gay People’s Alliance. Early attempts to start a gay liberation movement among Oregon students, including the university’s first-ever Gay Pride Week. He loses a later bid for Student Body President under a theme of “Come Out for Shilts.” Shilts embraces a “gay centric” approach to schoolwork and his life, living fully out despite some miscues, convinced heterosexuals are unaccepting of homosexuals because they lack understanding or knowledge of gays and lesbians. Oregon classmates recall Shilts’s transition from student politics to journalism. Shilts finds being “out” in conflict with his dreams of a career in mainstream journalism. Shilts writes about a summer job at a gay bathhouse.

Social Movements and Equality Seeking: The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

AbstractThis article examines the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on social movement politics in Canada using the case of the gay liberation movement. Drawing on the comparative social movement literature, the article situates equality seeking as a strategy and meaning game that legitimates new political identities and that is aimed at mobilizing a movement's constituency. The article demonstrates that equality seeking was a strategy and a meaning frame that was deployed in the lesbian and gay rights movement (exemplified by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s) prior to the entrenchment of the Charter. Thus, it concludes that some claims about the Charter's impact on social movement organizing have been exaggerated.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Andrew E. Stoner
Keyword(s):  
Gay Rights ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

Timing played a key role in all of Shilts’s success, and failures. His reporting and books on cutting-edge issues in the emerging gay liberation movement withstood strong push back on his work while establishing himself as an openly gay reporter in mainstream journalism. Shilts unapologetically approached his reporting as he had approached his earlier life – that information granted power and understanding and journalists played a key role in conveying that information. Important questions remain about whether Shilts helped or hindered the understanding of AIDS in the context of the gay community, with serious reservations raised about his use of the “Patient Zero” posit. He was praised, however, for advocacy for gay rights via Conduct Unbecoming.

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