Getting Some Identity Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction
Getting Some Identity Mattachine and the Politics of Sexual Identity Construction
In 1952, spurred by an event that demonstrated discrimination of ethnicity and race, the Civil Rights Congress and Citizen’s Committee to Outlaw Entrapment (CCOE) created a move for the eradication of violence against racial discrimination. For the CCOE, their struggle for equality and eradication of racial discrimination included not only races but “all minorities,” such as homosexuals, contending that homosexuals are an equivalent oppressed social minority, similar to all the others. They also contended that homosexuals shared an equivalent identity to racial groups and a similar political position in the society. This chapter discusses the efforts of Mattachine and CCOE in defending homosexuals, deemed one of the oppressed social minorities in the society. Such oppressed minorities were not economically and racially oppressed, but rather oppressed for their desires and actions.
Keywords: discrimination, race, CCOE, racial discrimination, homosexuals, racial groups, Mattachine
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