Lavender and red : liberation and solidarity in the gay and lesbian left / Emily K. Hobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, Emily K., 1975- Author.

Series:

American crossroads ; 44.

American Crossroads ; 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay liberation movement--United States.

Gay liberation movement.

Sexual minorities--United States.

Sexual minorities.

LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ activism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Beyond the Gay Ghetto. Founding Debates in Gay Liberation

Chapter 2. A More Powerful Weapon. Lesbian Feminism and Collective Defense

Chapter 3. Limp Wrists and Clenched Fists. Defining a Politics and Hitting the Streets

Chapter 4. 24th and Mission. Building Lesbian and Gay Solidarity with Nicaragua

Chapter 5. Talk About Loving in the War Years. Nicaragua, Transnational Feminism, and AIDS

Chapter 6. Money for AIDS, Not War. Anti-militarism, Direct Action against the Epidemic, and Movement History

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520965706

0520965701

OCLC:

948669919