ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the disjuncture between feminism and gay men has developed since the launch of the gay movement in the United States (US) following Stonewall. It discusses some threads of misogyny in the move toward gay parenting as they uniquely become visible through the lens of a psychoanalytic case. The focus of the women's liberation movement, as it was called in the 1960s and 1970s and is called second-wave feminism, was women's rights and freedom in a society then even more rigidly and oppressively patriarchal than US society. The movement of gay men that began at Stonewall adopted the use of consciousness-raising groups from the women's movement. In 1969, gay men and lesbians in the US were inspired by the example of the women's movement, and other social movements of the time, to take a public stand for our right to live in freedom, and with pride.
