{"id":139,"date":"2010-05-23T11:43:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:56:29","slug":"waiting_to_land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/waiting_to_land\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting to Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/286490726\">Duberman, Martin. <em>Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir (1985-2008).<\/em> New York: The New Press, 2009. hardcover. 334p. $26.95. ISBN: 9781595584403.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"Waiting to Land\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenewpress.com\/title_images\/1762.cover.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting to Land\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Waiting to Land<\/em> is Martin Duberman&#8217;s latest installment in his memoirs as a queer activist and academic in New York City for the past 25 years. It follows his earlier memoirs, <em>Cures<\/em> and <em>Midlife Queer,<\/em> and joins more than 15 other books that he has authored.<\/p>\n<p>This is chronological diary, built around a wide variety of activities and issues, including the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots, ACT-UP (and other queer activist groups), his work on a biography about Paul Robeson, and the NYC publishing world. One of Duberman&#8217;s greatest contributions in this era, and a project that takes up a lot of space in this volume, is his work founding and nurturing the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.gc.cuny.edu\/clags\/\">Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/a> (CLAGS) housed at the CUNY Graduate Center. The book is jam-packed with short descriptions of historical events in the LGBT community, notes on meetings, and commentary on the huge cast of people with which he has worked with.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Waiting to Land,<\/em> Duberman has kept a diary for the LGBT community of NYC, and it is a fascinating read for anyone who is touched by that time and those people.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>Morgan Gwenwald<\/strong><br \/>\nSUNY New Paltz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duberman, Martin. Waiting to Land: A (Mostly) Political Memoir (1985-2008). New York: The New Press, 2009. hardcover. 334p. $26.95. ISBN: 9781595584403. Waiting to Land is Martin Duberman&#8217;s latest installment in his memoirs as a queer activist and academic in New York City for the past 25 years. It follows his earlier memoirs, Cures and Midlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,42,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}