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Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade, 1971-1981
With searing self-appraisal and a keen sense of the world around him, acclaimed writer and gay activist Martin Duberman examines a wide range of issues in his personal and professional life and in the politics of the time from 1971 to 1981—from the early years of gay liberation to the first public reports of AIDS.
Duberman moves from the internecine battles in the academi ...more
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Paperback
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240 pages
Published
July 17th 1998
by University of Wisconsin Press
(first published 1996)
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Somehow it's this book that really showed me how the 1970s was a retreat from the radicalism of the '60s -- hello Nixon, right? But it’s so tempting, from the distance of a generation, to see the 1970s as a decade of nonstop radicalism. In Midlife Queer, Duberman gives us a critique of gay assimilation from the inside -- like his role on the board of the National Gay Task Force (later National Gay Lesbian Task Force). Sometimes the book can get a big grand, especially when Duberman is critiquing
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I especially liked the more personal parts of this memoir, such as a chapter that describes the wickedly funny, while serious, interaction between the author and a hospital roommate. The author throughout the book comes across as immensely intelligent, funny, and able to stand up for himself. The book bogs down with lengthy “history note” type material chronicling major events effecting gay men, and the important gay men involved. Set in the US during the 70’s, it ends just as AIDS comes on the
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Martin Bauml Duberman is a scholar and playwright. He graduated from Yale in 1952 and earned a Ph.D. in American history from Harvard in 1957. Duberman left his tenured position at Princeton University in 1971 to become Distinguished Professor of History at Lehman College in New York City.
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