John D'Emilio, Author . Free Press $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-684-82780-3
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, D'Emilio takes an unflinching look at the complicated life of the man who made it happen. That Rustin (1912–1987), a black civil rights activist, is not a...
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John D'Emilio, Author Routledge $49.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-415-90509-1
D'Emilio authored one of the pioneering studies of the birth of the gay movement, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities. In this collection, he expands on that work, with forays into gay historiography, the rise of gay and lesbian studies in the...
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John D’Emilio. Univ. of Wisconsin, $27.95 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-0-299-29774-9
The daunting task of keeping the flame of post-Stonewall gay activism burning for a new generation eludes even formidable gay historian D’Emilio (Lost Prophet), a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Though well-crafted as always, his
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John D’Emilio. Univ. of Chicago, $18 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-226-72753-0
In this informative and plainspoken essay collection, historian D’Emilio (In a New Century) shines a light on the history of grassroots LGBTQ activism in Chicago. Drawing on interviews and documents held by the city’s Gerbert/Hart Library and...
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John D'Emilio, Author, John D'Emilio, Author, D'Emilio, Author Duke University Press $84.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2930-5
A rabble-rousing college student in the 1960s, a gay liberation activist from the 1970s on, and a former director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Public Policy Institute in the 1990s, University of Illinois history professor John D'E
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John DeMillo, Author, John D'Emilio, Author, Estelle B. Freedman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-06-015855-2
The history of sexuality in the U.S. is not a progressive jump from repression to freedom, the authors maintain. Instead, sexuality has been continually remolded in each era, reflecting the dictates of economics, family structure and politics. This...
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