6 Top nonfiction books like Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman

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Has the Gay Movement Failed?

By: Martin Duberman

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years hav…

"A “successful"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"A “successful"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"... “homonormativity"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"... “homonormativity"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Has the Gay Movement Failed? by Martin Duberman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed

By: Jon Ronson

3.93

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."

-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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2. A Single Man

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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3. Rubyfruit Jungle

By: Rita Mae Brown

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a les… read more

Similar categories in Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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4. Giovanni’s Room

By: James Baldwin

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  h… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • american
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

5. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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6. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

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7. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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8. Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more

Similar categories in Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • queer
  • lgbt
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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9. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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10. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

Similar categories in Christos Tsiolkas's The In-Between book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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11. Just by Looking at Him

By: Ryan O'Connell

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the star of Peacock’s Queer as Folk and the Netflix series Special comes a “funny, tender, and… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O'Connell's Just by Looking at Him book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"I used to believe it was a privilege to be loved by anybody. Not anymore."

-Ryan O'Connell, Just by Looking at Him

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12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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14. Has the Gay Movement Failed?

By: Martin Duberman

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years hav… read more

Similar categories in Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed? book and Martin Duberman's Has the Gay Movement Failed?

  • american
  • history
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • queer studies
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
"A “successful"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"... “homonormativity"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"Historically, blacks and Latinos were routinely “carded"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

"The main goal here is to make ourselves “familiar enough"

-Martin Duberman, Has the Gay Movement Failed?

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

4.12

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Rita Mae Brown

3.68

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James Baldwin

4.33

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Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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4.02

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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