POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Billy Tipton, January 30, Lgbt Social Movements
13 Feb 2018
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D"emilio: mythology of modern movement: gay and lesbian community in 1990s have invented mythology. Isn"t enough history for them to think about it that way that"s why they have invented mythology from their own experience: silence. Invisibility: until the movement started, they were all alone, isolation. In canada mostly rural lives: change in second half of 19th century, production removed, family now site of personal life, formal education, selling of labour, urbanization, led to sustained urban communities, establish same sex preferences. Sexuality, gender, race and class in urbanization: white men, more accepted in public life, out of the family, in the city, easy to construct another life outside the family, more independent, established urban community earlier, ex. Bars, stores, on the street: able to meet up because it was a hidden community, ex. Intersectional identities and urbanization: black americans moved north and carved urban space, broken promises of freedom after slavery.
