An army of ex-lovers; my life at the Gay community news.9781558496217 An army of ex-lovers; my life at the Gay community news. Hoffman, Amy. U. of Massachusetts Press 2007 166 pages $22.95 Paperback HQ75 More than a mere memoir memoir History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events. , Hoffman's narrative of her years with the decidedly different Boston journal details the beginnings of what became the gay liberation movement Noun 1. gay liberation movement - the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression gay lib crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular . As she explains the workings of the Gay Community News and its various contributors, Hoffman also explains her relationships with what were to become leaders in a major civil rights movement, some of whom were dedicated to the point of distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] , while others were merely charmingly weird. She closely examines the fragmentation (1) Storing data in non-contiguous areas on disk. As files are updated, new data are stored in available free space, which may not be contiguous. Fragmented files cause extra head movement, slowing disk accesses. A defragger program is used to rewrite and reorder all the files. of the movement and its moments of cohesion cohesion: see adhesion and cohesion. Cohesion (physics) The tendency of atoms or molecules to coalesce into extended condensed states. This tendency is practically universal. , its range of goals and behaviors, and the motivations of people to be heard as they entered into what was then a new world and way of thinking. At the same time Hoffman gives an unflinching account of how she explained her lifestyle to her large and traditional Jewish family. The result is witty and deeply poignant. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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