WHILE WE NOW THINK of privilege and entitlement as pernicious
cornerstones of a culture where some lives are valued more than others,
pre-Stonewall leaders of the gay rights movement were often men fully
invested with both. For these men, denial of what they deemed was
rightfully theirs by virtue of class, race, education, and merit because
they were queer was irrational and intolerable; those personal
grievances bloomed into a cultural revolution. That they were men of
courage is undeniable; that they paid a tremendous price for their
advocacy of homosexual rights equally so. That they were also
complicated, self-righteous, controlling and unlikable, classist, and
possibly racist and misogynistic is also true./Monstres sacrés/, in the
evocative French phrase (sacred monsters), they were at once valorous
and appalling. At the heart of/The Deviant’s War/, Eric Cervini’s
exhaustive but brisk biography of Franklin E. Kameny, a central figure
in the early days of the LGBTQ movement, is the story of how one man’s
sense of having been unfairly treated by his government led him to stake
the claim of an entire group of people — hitherto despised — to fair
treatment and equal opportunity as part of their American birthright.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/monstre-sacre-the-life-and-times-of-franklin-e-kameny/
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