Date of Award
Spring 5-5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Dr. Jacqueline Nassy Brown
Second Advisor
Dr. Leo Coleman
Academic Program Adviser
Dr. Yukigo Koga
Abstract
Examination of the ACTUP Oral History Project using assimilation and activist identity theories reveals activists’ questionable presumptions about LGBTQ marriage, conflations of LGBTQ and activist identities, and nostalgia. Findings suggest a transformation from counterculture to assimilated subculture via segmented assimilation in which advantaged cohorts assimilate while others do not.
Recommended Citation
Mahana, Michael D., "Still ACTing UP? Voices from ACTUP's Oral History Project on the Current State of the LGBTQ Community" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/317