Works by
Urvashi Vaid
(Writer)

• Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (1995) -- Winner Stonewall Book Award
  "Vaid doesn't preach to the choir -- or to anyone else, for that matter; she simply offers her own findings in a voice that rings with conscience and common sense. This is the best book yet about that unwieldy glacier we call The Movement." -- Armistead Maupin

See also:

• Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy, and Civil Rights (2000) with John D'Emilio and William B. Turner
  Creating Change tells the story behind some of the most bitterly contested and controversial public events and public policy battles in the past generation and possibly in American history.In the thirty years since the Stonewall Inn riots marked the beginning of the modern gay and lesbian movement, there has been a dramatic change in the texture of gay and lesbian life and in its relationship to American society. Despite an apparently deepening conservative hold upon national and state politics, this shift has been as extensive - over a comparable period of time - as that witnessed in race and gender relations. Creating Change traces the work and gauges the impact of the gay and lesbian movement since Stonewall. It explores a critically significant, though often ignored, area in which change has occurred - the world of public policy making, especially at the level of the federal government - and scrutinizes the who, how, why, and what of it.A work of scholarship and a work of passion, it recounts how a specific constituency - gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans - were able to make tremendous progress despite seemingly insurmountable barriers. Creating Change is the story of the way in which the American political and cultural landscape became what it is today and how social change is brought about.

• Talking About a Revolution (1998)
  On its twentieth anniversary, the South End Press collective has gathered the left's most prominent intellectuals for a wide-ranging discussion of the past twenty years and the next twenty years of progressive social movements in the United States. In nine accessible, personal interviews, Chomsky, Zinn, Hooks, Ehrenreich, Marable, and the other activists and writers included let readers know their most deeply held beliefs and hopes for the progressive movements they have worked to build over the last two decades. Everyone who would like to see a revitalized, more effective movement for social change in the United States whether feminist, anti-racist, populist, anarchist, socialist, or union activist will want to read Talking About a Revolution. Talking About a Revolution offers an easy and lively introduction to the ideas of some of the leading intellectuals on the left today.An accessible collection of original interviews with the left's best intellectuals and activists.