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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner) Paperback - 1996

by Urvashi Vaid

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Named by Time magazine as one of the "Fifty for the Future"--a list of 50 of America's most promising leaders age 40 and under--Urvashi Vaid now offers an "intelligent, forthright book (that) contends that American homosexuals have achieved only the appearance of acceptance. Valuable . . . and frightening".--The New Yorker

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A veteran activist tackles urgent questions about where the gay movement should go and what the movement wants with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism.

"A valuable, encyclopedic compendium of the gay movement's modern history and challenges." --San Francisco Chronicle

Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions. In Virtual Equality, Urvashi Vaid offers wise answers.

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Since the decade to lift the ban on gays in the military, the emergence of gay conservatives, and the onslaught of antigay initiatives across America, the gay and lesbian community has been asking itself tough questions: Where should the movement go? What do we want? In "Virtual Equality, veteran activist Urvashi Vaid tackles these questions with a unique combination of visionary politics and hard-earned pragmatism.

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  • Title Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (Stonewall Book Award Winner)
  • Author Urvashi Vaid
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York
  • Publication date 1996-05-01
  • ISBN 9780385472999 / 0385472994
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
  • Category Gender Studies
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.9

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  • New York Times, 09/29/1996, Page 32

About the author

UVRVASHI VAID (1958 - 2022) was an Indian-born American LGBT rights activist, lawyer, and writer. An expert in gender and sexuality law, she held a series of roles at the National LGBTQ Task Force. She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation and Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics.
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