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050 00 $aHQ76.3.U5$bL59 2021
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100 1 $aLecklider, Aaron,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLove's next meeting :$bthe forgotten history of homosexuality and the left in American culture /$cAaron S. Lecklider.
246 30 $aForgotten history of homosexuality and the left in American culture
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2021]
264 4 $c©2021
300 $axv, 354 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-344) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Deviant politics -- "Flaunting the Transatlantic breeze" : sexual dissidents on the left -- "After sex, what?" : politicizing sex on the left -- "To be one with the people" : homosexuality and the cultural front -- "If I can die under you" : homosexuality and labor on the left -- "Socialism & sex is what I want" : women, gender, and sexual dissidence in the 1930s and 1940s -- "Playing the queers" : homosexuality in proletarian literature -- "We who are not ill" : queer antifascism -- "The Secret element of their vice" : deviant politics in the Cold War.
520 $a"Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor campaigns, sympathized like many with the early, prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture. Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love's Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Author Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for building a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making the headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century"--$cProvided by publisher.
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650 0 $aRight and left (Political science)$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y20th century.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aLecklider, Aaron.$tLove's next meeting.$dOakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]$z9780520381438$w(OCoLC)1239982765
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