Description
Book SynopsisWhat did gay men do in women's liberationand vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic or androphobic; feminist women and gay men collaborated only during the 1960s-1970s liberation moment; lesbians rushed in to work with gay men during the AIDS crisis. Examined for the first time in this book, their stories are much more complex, yesterday and today. Feminist women and gay men have had dynamic relations in popular thinking and historic practice, including commonality, opposition, and intellectual contributions. Written by a feminist-identified gay man, this book forges an examination of these two groups' alliances and obstacles over the past 50 years, as well as their communications of, between, and about each other. What have been the received views of how these groups have or have not worked together
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Introduction – The Received View: Public Memory, Historiographic Discourses, and LGBTQ Media – Networked Social Change: Feminism and LGBTQ Movements in South Carolina, USA – Representing Each Other: Gays in The Second Wave/Lesbians in AIDS Cinema – Talking Amongst Ourselves: Gay Men and Feminist Women (Before Trump) – Queering Networks, Entangled Platforms: Feminist Women and Gay Men in Online Media – Conclusion: Creative Destruction – Index.
