Tales Of The Lavender Menace: A Memoir Of Liberation

New York: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. first edition, first printing; light edge wear to boards and jacket; A fast-paced memoir, serious and hilarious in turn, of the struggles and scandals, politics and personalities that made up the womens and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. Karla Jay, a direct participant in the dramatic history of the womens and gay liberation movements, brings on stage a dazzling cast of unforgettable characters and gives voice to the sweeping tale of the activists who struggled for their vision of social justice and sexual liberation. ]Karla Jays memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical womens groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early 70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights. We see here helping to organize the takeover of The Ladies Home Journal and ogle-ins where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the men. We follow her in the fast lane of the sexual freedom movement as she liberates sun worshipers from their bathing suits.