"This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we've  been waiting for." --The Washington Post The sweeping story of the  struggle for gay and lesbian rights--based on amazing interviews with  politicians, military figures, and members of the entire LGBT community  who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay and lesbian civil  rights--the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the  heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay  rights pioneers--is the most important civil rights issue of the present  day. In "the most comprehensive history to date of America's gay-rights  movement" (The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story  through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep,  depth, and feeling. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays  and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill,  churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred.  Against…