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DescriptionThe right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that havegalvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has becomea rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion to gayliberation to sex education. Yet this notion of privacy originated notonly from legal arguments, nor solely from political movements on theleft or the right, but instead from ambivalent moderates who valued bothpersonal freedom and the preservation of social norms.In The Closet andthe Cul-de-Sac, Clayton Howard chronicles the rise of sexual privacy asa fulcrum of American cultural politics. Beginning in the 1940s, publicofficials pursued an agenda that both promoted heterosexuality and madesexual privacy one of the state's key promises to its citizens. The 1944G.I. Bill, for example, excluded gay veterans and enfranchised marriedones in its dispersal of housing benefits. At the same time, officialsrequired secluded bedrooms in new suburban homes and created educationalcampaigns designed to teach children respect for parents' privacy. Inthe following decades, measures such as these helped to concentratemiddle-class families in the suburbs and gay men and lesbians incities.In the 1960s and 1970s, the gay rights movement invoked privacyto attack repressive antigay laws, while social conservatives criticizedtolerance for LGBTQ+ people as an assault on their own privacy. Manyself-identified moderates, however, used identical rhetoric to distancethemselves from both the discriminatory language of the religious rightand the perceived excesses of the gay freedom struggle. Using the BayArea as a case study, Howard places these moderates at the center ofpostwar American politics and shows how the region's burgeoning suburbsreacted to increasing gay activism in San Francisco. The Closet and theCul-de-Sac offers specific examples of the ways in which governmentpolicies shaped many Americans' attitudes about sexuality and privacyand the ways in which citizens mobilized to reshape them.
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