The Gay Rights Movement

After the two‐volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures (Garland, 2000, RR 2000/230) and Fitzroy Dearborn’s Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies (RR 2000/390), comes yet another North American heavyweight for the Gay shelves. This volume, though, is quite different from both. It is the second in the series in which a century of The New York Times newspaper is culled for articles on a particular subject, with the resulting haul re‐typeset and arranged in thematic chapters. The Cold War has been published and Political Censorship and The Balkans are forthcoming. The concept is brilliant: 100 years...