ISBN: 0963528939 9780963528933

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)

Page count: 146

"For gays and lesbians in America. the struggle for national political power has been nothing less than a fight-or-die battle for survival. Against the backdrop of AIDS and civil rights challenges, journalist Tommi Avicolli Mecca's chronicle of the gay community's role in electing Bill Clinton recounts one of modern politics most dramatic, shocking and inspiring true-life dramas. It's a fascinating account of how Pat Buchanan and the GOP's right has targeted homosexuals as their new public enemy number one for the post-Berlin-Wall era. And, how the gay/lesbian leadership responded by seizing a powerful new election-swaying voice withing the Democratic Party."--Publisher's description.