The Audacity of a Kiss : : Love, Art, and Liberation / / Leslie Cohen.
Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other’s eyes. The two women are part of George Segal’s iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation,” but these powerful symbols wer...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) :; 39 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Author’s Note
- Prologue
- Part I. Youth
- 1. Secrets and Dreams
- 2. Confetti on New Year’s Eve
- 3. Touching God
- 4. Awakening
- 5. Crawling out of Darkness
- 6. Acceptance
- Part II. Freedom Calling
- 7. Les Femmes
- 8. Water in the Desert
- 9. Jagged, Dirty Thoughts
- 10. An Antidote to Boredom
- 11. Permission
- 12. Virginia Slims
- 13. Lone Riders
- 14. Style Gets Used Up
- 15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be
- 16. After the Desert
- Postscript
- Gay Liberation Timeline
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- About the Author