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Rough News - Daring Views: 1950s' Pioneer Gay Press Journalism
by John Dececco, Phd, Jim KepnerJohn Dececco
Rough NewsDaring Views: 1950s’Pioneer Gay Press Journalism is a collection of the most challenging and wide-ranging essays on gay lifeits political, social, religious, and historical aspectsto appear in the pioneer gay press in America. Jim Kepner's contributions to ONE Magazine, the Mattachine Review, ONE Institute Quarterly of Homophile Studies, ONE Confidential, and other publications, at a time when to produce or possess any such material was judged illegal and subversive, are invaluable to students of gay history, homosexuality and the law, and religious and biological arguments on the subject, as well as for analysts of the progress and goals of the gay liberation movement. It is also a popular reader for gays, researchers, teachers, and journalism students interested in the almost overlooked history of the gay and lesbian movement before Stonewall.
The importance of Jim Kepner's contributions to the 1950s’gay press cannot be overstated. In the author's words, “I shed the apologetic attitudes, explored the meaning of gayness, looked at various social and legal aspects of gay life, and critically analyzed the homophobic views of many psychotherapists, theologians, and others, exploring our history and literature, and covering then-current witch-hunts against gays and discussing how we could define and advance our cause. My articles covered . . . a wide range of gay concerns, generally moving well ahead of the timid or homophobic thinking of most gays at the time (though, as shown here, my own ideas also had some evolving to do).” In Rough NewsDaring Views, you'll uncover revolutionary articles and reports on:
Contents Foreword: Jim Kepner, Our Contemporary
My News Column Starts
The Kaiser's Friend
Biology versus Dogma
ONE [itals] Is Not Obscene
Swish or Swim
A Harmless Lark
Service, or Risk?
A collection of 10 articles Kepner wrote for , the , and other gay publications during a period when producing or possessing such material was illegal and considered subversive. Discusses claims that homosexuals could be cured, an outline for a class on homosexual sociology, Whitman's homosexuality, the thinking of British churchmen, legal battles, and other topics. A resource for social historians and a sobering window for young readers to life before Stonewall. Paper edition (1-56023-896-8), $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.