TY  - BOOK
AU  - Minton,Henry L.
TI  - Departing from deviance: a history of homosexual rights and emancipatory science in America 
SN  - 9780226304458 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HQ76.3.U5 M56 2002eb
U1  - 305.9/0664/0973 22
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - Research
KW  - United States
KW  - Gay liberation movement
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Homosexualité
KW  - Recherche
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Mouvement de libération des homosexuels
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Homoseksualiteit
KW  - gtt
KW  - Onderzoek
KW  - Emancipatie
KW  - Homobeweging
KW  - Homosexualität
KW  - swd
KW  - Forschung
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-335) and index; Introduction: emancipatory science and homosexual rights -- The relationship between homosexuals and sex researchers, 1870-1940 -- Jan Gay and the Sex Variants Committee, 1935-41 -- Homosexual life stories, 1935-41 -- Henry and Gross and the study of sex offenders, 1937-72 -- Thomas Painter and the study of male prostitution, 1935-43 -- Toward participatory research on homosexuality: Painter, Kinsey, and the Kinsey Institute, 1943-73 -- Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, and depathologizing homosexuality, 1957-73 -- Epilogue: beyond 1973
N2  - The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in cha
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