![]() Linda Hirshman’s 2012 book “Victory,” for instance, skillfully covers the same period, from World War II to the early 21st century. ![]() Recent years have generated a shelf of books on the gay rights movement geared toward both scholarly and popular audiences. Faderman then asks one of the framing questions of her important book: “What long-fought battles, tragic losses and hard-won triumphs have brought us as a country from the days when a much loved and gifted professor could be disgraced, thrown in jail and hounded out of his profession as soon as his private life was revealed, to the days when a military officer could marry the woman she loves in broad daylight and be promoted, in a very public ceremony, to the rank of general with her wife by her side?”Ī reader might fairly ask whether Faderman’s answer could offer anything new. According to tradition, the stars on a new general’s epaulets are affixed by the two individuals most meaningful to her - in Smith’s case, her father and her wife. ![]() Tammy Smith’s elevation to the rank of general in 2012. The respected 50-year-old “lost his job, his good name, his beloved students, his entire career - even his pension.” The second depicts a ceremony for Army Col. Johnston of the University of Missouri, prosecuted for sodomy in 1948. ![]() ![]() Lillian Faderman’s “The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle” opens with two vignettes. ![]()
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