David K. Johnson
American historian and author
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David K. Johnson is an American historian and author who has taught at the University of South Florida since 2003. He specializes in LGBTQ and gender history in the 20th-century United States. His first book, The Lavender Scare, was made into a documentary film that garnered best documentary awards at over a dozen film festivals and broadcast nationwide on PBS June 18, 2019. His second book, Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement chronicles the rise of a gay commercial network in the years leading up to the Stonewall Riots. It was released in March 2019 by Columbia University Press in its series on "Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism". It was featured in a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
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- The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (2004) (215)
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 Birmingham Campaign as Image Event (2007) (55)
- Physique Pioneers: The Politics of 1960s Gay Consumer Culture (2010) (27)
- "Homosexual Citizens": Washington's Gay Community Confronts the Civil Service (1994) (19)
- How the Atlantic barons learnt teamwork. (2001) (11)
- Prescription for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era (2011) (4)
- Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's “Sex Deviates” Program. By Charles, Douglas M. (2018) (3)
- America’s Cold War Empire: Exporting the Lavender Scare (2013) (3)
- Whitney Strub. Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right . (2012) (2)
- Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's “Sex Deviates” Program. By Douglas M. Charles. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. Pp. 480. $34.95.) (2018) (1)
- The Red Scare’s Lavender Cousin: The Construction of the Cold War Citizen (2015) (1)
- Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World. By Nicholas C. Edsall. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiv, 377 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-8139-2211-9.) (2005) (1)
- Author Meets Critics: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (2019) (1)
- Brian Hoffman. Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism. (2016) (1)
- Surprise! Christmas spending isn’t good for the economy (2015) (0)
- “Purge of the Perverts” Redux ... Scapegoating Gays (2006) (0)
- The United States since 1945 : a documentary reader (2009) (0)
- The Supreme Court and the Right to Sexual Intimacy (2010) (0)
- This year’s “Merry Christmas Laws” are unconstitutional and likely doomed to fail (2013) (0)
- Keynote Address: Consumer Culture and Political Resistance—How Gay Entrepreneurs Sparked A Movement (2017) (0)
- The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America. By Lisa Z. Sigel (2021) (0)
- Trump’s Pick for Intelligence Chief Represents a Step Forward for Gay Rights (2020) (0)
- Controversy over public religious Christmas displays in America is fueled by differing beliefs regarding Christmas and American history (2013) (0)
- Sorry Fox News, there is no War on Christmas and Santa isn’t White (2013) (0)
- Frank Kameny: America’s First Gay Activist (2016) (0)
- The Homophobic History of the Post Office (2014) (0)
- Sexual Politics and the Vietnam Quagmire (2004) (0)
- Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny . Edited by MICHAEL G. LONG. (2017) (0)
- DSI: The 1960s Gay Consumer Culture Revolution (2014) (0)
- Review of Meeker, Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communications and Community, 1940s––1970s. (2007) (0)
- Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary:A Look at the Uprising that Launched the Modern Gay Rights Movement (2011) (0)
- Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny ed. by Michael G. Long (review) (2017) (0)
- Trump’s war on Christmas is just one part of his coming war on free speech (2016) (0)
- Katie Batza. Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (2019) (0)
- Communists and Perverts under the Palms: The Johns Committee in Florida, 1956–1965 (2013) (0)
- Ask and Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out. By Steve Estes. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 280 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3115-1.) (2008) (0)
- The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (2017) (0)
- Post Office Honors Harvey Milk, But Harbors Anti-Gay Past (2014) (0)
- Jon Stewart and the Fictional War on Christmas (2013) (0)
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