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The LGBT Community Responds: The Lavender Scare and the Creation of Midwestern Gay and Lesbian Publications

Hines, Heather
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499359433882651

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, History.
This thesis's objective is to shed light on understudied and unprecedented developments in LGBT history. Unlike the traditional narrative of the beginning of the gay rights movement, it begins with the aftermath of World War II and the emergence of the Lavender Scare. The Lavender Scare set the stage for the modern gay rights movement and helped spread the movement across the United States. Following the Lavender Scare, gay and lesbian societies were created to help combat societally engrained homophobia. These societies also established their own publications, most notably newspapers, to inform the gay and lesbian community about police entrapment tactics, provide legal advice and news of interest to the community that was not covered in the popular press. Previously unstudied Midwestern gay and lesbian societies and newsletters are also studied, therefore widening the scope of the movement from major coastal cities to rural areas across the nation. Using the existing scholarly literature on LGBT history, this thesis reanalyzes prior developments; uses newly found primary sources such as FBI documents, congressional records, and newsletters, to complicate and expand the history of gay rights in the United States.
Benjamin Greene, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Michael Brooks, Dr. (Committee Member)
74 p.
American History; Gender Studies; History
LGBT; gay; lesbian; Cold War; publications; Lavender Scare; homosexuality

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  • Hines, H. (2017). The LGBT Community Responds: The Lavender Scare and the Creation of Midwestern Gay and Lesbian Publications [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499359433882651

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hines, Heather. The LGBT Community Responds: The Lavender Scare and the Creation of Midwestern Gay and Lesbian Publications. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499359433882651.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hines, Heather. "The LGBT Community Responds: The Lavender Scare and the Creation of Midwestern Gay and Lesbian Publications." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1499359433882651

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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