Behind the Mask of the Mattachine : The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation

James T. Sears

The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America's first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. "Behind he Mask of the Mattachine" travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of the modern homosexual movement and the lesser-known individuals who started it. This stunning chronicle gives the unexpurgated history of the activists who organized homosexuals - using the biography of the controversial Hal Call as its springboard.