Free Shipping to Canada
on all orders over $150.00.
Connect on Social:

The Deviant's War

In Stock Unavailable

Regular price $47.50 |  Save $-47.50 (Liquid error (sections/product-template line 206): divided by 0% off)
/

By Eric Cervini In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C.  The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series...
0

You are away from qualifying for free shipping within Canada.

Your cart qualifies for free shipping in Canada! Discount is automatically applied at checkout. Thank you!

Product Details

By Eric Cervini

In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C.  The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a homosexual, and after a series of humiliating interviews, Kameny, like countless gay men and women before him, was promptly dismissed from his government job.  Unlike many others, though, Kameny fought back.

Based on firsthand accounts, recently declassified FBI records, and forty thousand personal documents, Eric Cervini's The Deviant's War unfolds over the course of the 1960s, as the Mattachine Society of Washington, the group Kameny founded, became the first organization to protest the systematic persecution of gay federal employees.  It traces the forgotten ties that bound gay rights to the Black Freedom Movement, the New Left, lesbian activism, and trans resistance.  Above all, it is a story of America (and Washington) at a cultural and sexual crossroads; of shocking, byzantine public battles with Congress; of FBI informants; murder; betrayal; sex; love; and ultimately victory.

Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 2020)
ISBN-13: 9780374139797
Product Dimensions: 16.1 x 4.1 x 23.8 cm

Shipping & Returns

Returns Policy

Please see our Returns & Exchanges Policy for complete details.

Shipping

We ship all orders in non-descript boxes for your privacy.

Recently Viewed Products

The Deviant's War

What are you looking for?

Your cart