After The Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred Of Gays In The 90s

440 Pages·1990·26.289 MB·English

by  Marshall Kirk, Hunter Madsen

HOW AMERICA WILL
CONQUER ITS FEAR
& HATRED OF CAYS
IN THE 90s —
Canad* »*»
X
twenty-five million gays-onetm
every ten c.mens-make up
largest* and last, outcast m.nonty_ Wha
would it take to transform our fierce y
anti-gay society into one where homosex¬
uals could live freely, openly, happily
now, and in the AIDS-haunted America
well know over the next decade?
It would take an aggressive new battle
plan for gay rights—the stunningly sys¬
tematic and controversial blueprint pre¬
sented in After the Ball. Marshall
Kirlc and Hunter Madsen write with wit
and anger on the twentieth anniversary
of the Stonewall riots, where the gay
revolution first began. The authors,
Harvard-trained social scientists, reveal
why the revolution has failed, so far, to
defeat homophobia and “homohatred”
in America. Their hard-hitting expose
faults both straights and gay activists for
the current mess and shows how deeply
gays have suffered as a result.
Dismissing the movement’s outworn
techniques in favor of carefully calcu¬
lated public relations propaganda,
After the Ball unveils the key psy-
chological principles and national strat¬
egies that gays must follow to conquer
bigotry in the 1990s. At the same time,
Kirk and Madsen propose a clear-eyed
agenda to reform gay culture itself, by
eliminating common misbehaviors that
hurt other gays and needlessly bonow
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How America Will Conquer
Its Fear and Hatred
of Gays in the '90s
MARSHALL KIRK
AND
HUNTER MADSEN
Ph.D.
*
Published by Doubleday, a division of
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666 Fifth Avenue, New York. New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-
Publication Data
Kirk, Marshall.
After the ball: how America will
conquer its hatred and fear of
homosexuals in the '90's / Marshall Kirk
and Hunter Madsen. —1st ed.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-385-23906-8
1* Gay liberation movement—United
States.
2. Gays—United States—Public opinion.
3. Homophobia—United States—
Prevention. 4. Public opinion—United
States. I. Madsen, Hunter. II. Title
HQ76.8.U5K57 1989
306.7'66 dcl9 88-3686(
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copyright © 1989 by Marshall
Kirk
and Hunter Madsen
All Rights Reserved
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JUNE 1989 STATES OP AMERICA
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