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What do we mean by the gay community'? What is the state of gay and lesbian politics' in contemporary Britain? Have communitarian' ideas provided a framework for change? And what is the view from outside the capital? Recent years have seen both signi?cant legal and social reform bene?ting lesbian and gay people under a government whose communitarian political credo has stressed the importance of community' and rights and responsibilities'. What effect has this had? What is the influence of identity, space and location, politics, and community itself? On the basis of qualitative research with gay men and lesbians working for change in Liverpool and Manchester, the author examines whether gay and lesbian equality and the idea of the gay community' can be understood and furthered within a framework of communitarian ideas.

Provincial Queens: The Gay and Lesbian Community

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      Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
      Publication Date: 07/11/2007
      ISBN13: 9783039109302, 978-3039109302
      ISBN10: 3039109308

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      Book Synopsis
      What do we mean by the gay community'? What is the state of gay and lesbian politics' in contemporary Britain? Have communitarian' ideas provided a framework for change? And what is the view from outside the capital? Recent years have seen both signi?cant legal and social reform bene?ting lesbian and gay people under a government whose communitarian political credo has stressed the importance of community' and rights and responsibilities'. What effect has this had? What is the influence of identity, space and location, politics, and community itself? On the basis of qualitative research with gay men and lesbians working for change in Liverpool and Manchester, the author examines whether gay and lesbian equality and the idea of the gay community' can be understood and furthered within a framework of communitarian ideas.

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