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The latest addition to Salem's "Great Events from History" series, edited by scholars Faderman (California State Univ.), Yolanda Retter (UCLA), and Horacio Roque Ram�rez (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), covers events relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) community. Its 283 chronologically arranged essays, which average 1000 words in length, are written by both academic specialists and independent scholars. Each entry contains the event's date, title, common name, locale, category type (e.g., science, sports), key figures, and significance as well as an abstract, a summary,See also cross references to related entries, and suggestions for further reading. If the event has long-term consequences, those are described as well. The earliest event recalls the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY; the most recent, the trifecta of GLBT films (i.e., Brok...Log In or Sign Up to Read More