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Queering Foundations: Queer and Lesbian, Gay,
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| Author | Mayo, Cris |
| Abstract | Since the beginning of the modern homophile movement, gay people have madeeducation of themselves and heterosexuals central to their political project. That dedication to education can be seen in the first lesbian periodical, The Ladder (Octo-ber 1956–December 1966), which included in its frontispiece a series of statements of purpose, including Education of the variant, with particular emphasis on the psychological, physiological and sociological aspects, to enable her to understand herself and make her adjustment to society in all its social, civic and economic implications—this to be accomplished by establishing and maintaining as complete a library as possible of both fiction and non-fiction literature on the sex deviant theme; by sponsoring public discus-sions on pertinent subjects to be conducted by leading members of the legal, psychiatric, religious and other professions. For all its talk of adjustment, the authors in The Ladder also were deeply interested in creating what lesbians could be, questioning social norms, and debating critical fea-tures of gender and sexuality oppression. As much as it is now current practice to dis-tinguish between the beginnings of the lesbian and gay movement as essentialist and our newer approaches as social constructionist (a parallel gesture also is made in writings |
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