TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robinson,Lucy
TI  - Gay men and the left in post-war Britain: how the personal got political 
T2  - Critical Labour Movement Studies
SN  - 9781847792334
AV  - HQ76 .G396 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Gay liberation movement
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Politics and culture: homosexuality and the Left in post-war Britain; 2 Reporting change: law reform, homosexual identity and the role of counter-culture; 3 Gay liberation 1969-73: praxis, protest and performance; 4 The Left gets personal: identity, performance and the Left 1972-79; 5 The next big thing: from Gay Left Collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the Left; 6 Confronting Thatcher: the Bermondsey by-election, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners and AIDS activismConclusion; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - This book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexua
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