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Ehrenreich, Barbara | July 5, 1993 issue

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At the heart of the tumultuous gay liberation movement is the struggle of lesbians and gay men to define themselves, to draw up their own agendas and finally, to create an entirely new sexual identity -- beyond the pathological "perverse:' beyond the categorical "homosexual," beyond even the transitional "gay." The Nation this week gives its pages to lesbian and gay writers and artists who are in varying ways committed to the historic project of self-definition. The work they present here grows out of their own experience. Too often, liberals and leftists find comfort in a distanced literature of victimization, which loses the energy, the humor and the passions in real lives.

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GAY liberation movement; SOCIAL movements; LGBT people; ARTISTS; AUTHORS; LIBERALS; VICTIMS of crimes
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