Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"Martin Duberman offers us an important provocation with Has the Gay Movement Failed? Raising crucial questions about our movement's direction in the half century since Stonewall, he also asks how the left and queer activists can work together now. Duberman's long experience and humane vision offer us both tough love and hope in this time of renewed crisis."--Lisa Duggan, author of The Twilight of Equality?

"Do we have a queer movement of which we can be proud? Surveying culture, politics, science, technologies, legal strategies, and fundamental concepts of personal and political freedom, Martin Duberman gets to the heart of what has gone wrong with the LGBTQ movement and why it has not fought for a comprehensive vision of freedom for everyone--or has even impeded it. Has the Gay Movement Failed? is his most challenging, provocative, and visionary book to date. It is an imperative read for anyone interested in a truly liberated queer future."--Michael Bronski, author of A Queer History of the United States

"By starting the book with a history of the Gay Liberation Front, an origin of the radical gay left, Duberman provides a key to seeing the limits, considerations, and failures that followed. But beyond the missed opportunities and unfinished agenda, he offers a road map of possibility, with tactics for those who feel, dream, and organize toward a world of more radical love."--Theodore (Ted) Kerr, founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? and former program director of Visual AIDS