How long does it take to read The Other Side of Silence?
John Loughery
The Other Side of Silence by John Loughery takes about 9 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 507 pages, about 139,425 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the time of its publication, this was the only study of gay male history covering the United States since World War I. Based on hundreds of interviews, new and classic texts, and little-known archival sources, an award-winning writer offers the first narrative history to consider signal moments, general trs, and the multiple meanings of "gay identity" in the whole United States from World War I to the AIDS era and "queer" activism. The most readable, authoritative, and comprehensive investigation ever, The Other Side of Silence combines history and anecdote, politics and theory to reveal the personalities and textures of a largely unknown culture. A dramatic chronicle of seventy-five years of persecution and accomplishment, the book addresses both in equal detail: witch hunts in schools and the military, crusades of psychiatrists, the resistance long before Stonewall, the inspiring pioneers and activists. From Newport and the private-party networks of Nebraska and Florida's Emma Jones Society to gay rodeos, athletes, and support groups, here are first-hand accounts of what it has meant (and might mean in the future) to be a sexual outsider in the United States.
Subjects: Gay men, Social conditions, Identity, History, Gays, Gay men, social conditions
