Lavender and Red

Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left

AvEmily K. Hobson

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Del 44 i serien American Crossroads

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Beskrivning

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Crossroads
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520279063

Utforska kategorier

HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Emily K. Hobson is Assistant Professor of History and of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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"Hobson succeeds in painting a rich portrait of a vibrant gay and lesbian left that flourished in the Bay Area in the 1970s and 1980s and saw itself as connected to the international left... the book has certainly made me rethink the way I write and teach LGBT history and has added some very necessary complications to that standard narrative." Daily Kos "Hobson analyzes these tensions and recovers varying forms of political critique, strategy, and community. Through drawing on oral histories and archival documents, including striking photographs, flyers, and political artwork, Lavender and Red lifts up a strain of gay and lesbian activism that had been all but lost to memory for most activists and scholars of today." New Books Network

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beyond the Gay Ghetto: Founding Debates in Gay Liberation 2. A More Powerful Weapon: Lesbian Feminism and Collective Defense 3. Limp Wrists and Clenched Fists: Defining a Politics and Hitting the Streets 4. 24th and Mission: Building Lesbian and Gay Solidarity with Nicaragua 5. Talk About Loving in the War Years: Nicaragua, Transnational Feminism, and AIDS 6. Money for AIDS, Not War: Anti-militarism, Direct Action against the Epidemic, and Movement History Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index