ISBN:
9781452947624
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (259 p.)
,
Ill.
DDC:
362.19697920086642
Keywords:
Gays History
;
Gay culture History
;
AIDS (Disease) Social aspects
;
Queer theory
;
Gay and lesbian studies
Abstract:
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argues this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS. Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, this book offers a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture from the suppression and repression of gay memory.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5749/minnesota/9780816676101.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816676101.001.0001
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