Awards

• Winner of Shortlisted, RHS Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society.
• Winner of Winner, 2021 Waterloo Centre German Studies Book Prize Shortlisted, RHS Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society.

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Craig Griffith's history of the movement is a pathbreaking study that paints a differentiated picture especially of the student gay groups and of their debates and activism and that clarifies a few myths about the movement that still dominate public perception of the movement. * Alexander Zinn, H/Soz/Kult *

Griffiths offers a comprehensive and convincing account of the gay movement of the 1970s. * Merlin Sophie Bootsmann and Andrea Rottmann, German Historical Institute London Bulletin * Craig Griffith's history of the movement is a pathbreaking study that paints a differentiated picture especially of the student gay groups and of their debates and activism and that clarifies a few myths about the movement that still dominate public perception of the movement. * Alexander Zinn, H/Soz/Kult * The first English-language monograph to focus on West Germany's gay liberation movement, it is part of a recent outpouring of interest in queer activist movements on both sides of the Atlantic. * Samuel Clowes Huneke, George Mason University *

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Craig Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches and researches queer history, the history of sexuality, and modern European history. He is an Associate of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and a co-founder and co-convenor of the Seminar Series in the History of Sexuality at the Institute of Historical Research, London. This is his first book.

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