Gay Liberation to Campus Assimilation

Abstract

"Patrick Dilley's new historical study based on universities in the Midwest since 1969 helps transform the study and understanding of the diversity and complexity of both student life and student organizations on the American campus. In analyzing the trends from Gay Liberation to Campus Assimilation, he simultaneously provides a sorely needed study of previously overlooked students and their organizations. By bringing this story into the mainstream of higher education scholarship, he has expanded our understanding of the entire American college and university structures and cultures." (John R. Thelin, Professor of Higher Education and Public Policy, University of Kentucky, USA) "In this meticulously researched book, Patrick Dilley not only gives us the first comprehensive history of LGBT organizing on college campuses, he also provides a framework for understanding how these student groups formed, did their work, and ultimately changed their politics with the world around them. This is required reading for historians of education, activism, and sexuality." (Nicholas L. Syrett, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas, USA) "In this book, Dilley articulates the evolution of non-heterosexual student movements and, at the same time.