Gerry Studds : America's first openly gay congressman /

Title:

Gerry Studds : America's first openly gay congressman /

Author:

Schneider, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1948- author.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emmanuel College

Contents:

Wedding day -- A New England boyhood -- "Bored with trivia and impatient with stupidity" -- With Gene McCarthy in New Hampshire -- Studds for Congress -- The sacred cod -- The congressman in the closet -- The Mashpee Wampanoag and the New Bedford Portuguese -- Knocks on the closet door -- "The president has certified that ... black is white" -- The fisherman's friend caught in a net -- A gay man runs for congress -- Plague of silence -- Studds versus the Contras -- Provincetown -- Spilling oil, spilling blood -- Gay and lesbian warriors -- Gerry gerrymandered -- Don't ask, don't tell and a memorable address -- Saving the whales ... but not much else -- A true defense of marriage -- Epilogue -- Interviews.

Online access:

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Library holdings:

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