transgender people were largely closeted and silent, while gay men and lesbians often waged war against each other about gender differences and political priorities. It was during the AIDS crisis that homophobia swelled in America, and the sexual and gender minorities realized that cooperation was in their best interest. Out magazine writer Michael Musto recalls this: “In 1987, when I went to my first meeting of ACT UP [an AIDS activist group] . . . I was amazed to see a room without gender barriers. The
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of