Studies in American Popular History and The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: 'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail', (Hardcover)

Cohen examines how gay liberation-with its rejection of stultifying sex roles, attack on institutional oppression, connection between personal and political liberation, celebration of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance-shaped understandings of sexual identity, membership criteria, organization, decision-making, the roles of youth and adults, and efforts to effect social change.