Gerry Studds
Subtitle: America's first openly gay congressman
By: Mark Robert Schneider
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781625342850; 9781625342843
Subjects: Politics and government; Gay legislators; Legislators; United States; Politicians; United States. Congress. House; Biography
Other titles: America's first openly gay congressman
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wedding day; title: A New England boyhood; title: "Bored with trivia and impatient with stupidity"; title: With Gene McCarthy in New Hampshire; title: Studds for Congress; title: The sacred cod; title: The congressman in the closet; title: The Mashpee Wampanoag and the New Bedford Portuguese; title: Knocks on the closet door; title: "The president has certified that ... black is white"; title: The fisherman's friend caught in a net; title: A gay man runs for congress; title: Plague of silence; title: Studds versus the Contras; title: Provincetown; title: Spilling oil, spilling blood; title: Gay and lesbian warriors; title: Gerry gerrymandered; title: Don't ask, don't tell and a memorable address; title: Saving the whales ... but not much else; title: A true defense of marriage; title: Epilogue; title: Interviews.