Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Stein, Marc

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“…Men of color who are members of this generation navigated not just deeply stigmatizing discourse about homosexuality but also an era of explicit racism and violence against racial and ethnic minorities. They encountered racism within early sexual minority communities and the homophile movement (e.g., Stein, 2012), as well as homophobia and heterosexism within racial and ethnic minority communities and the larger Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Icard, 1985; Loiacano, 1989). Unfortunately, empirical research with gay and other same-sex attracted men of this generation has been conducted exclusively with white men, and the recent focus on men of color has tended to study younger generations of men.…”

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Gay Men’s Health and Identity: Social Change and the Life Course

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Due to significant historical change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century related to both health and cultural attitudes toward homosexuality, gay men of distinct birth cohorts may diverge considerably in their health and identity development. We argue that research on gay men’s health has not adequately considered the significance of membership in distinct generation-cohorts, and we present a life course paradigm to address this problem. Focusing on the United States as an exemplar that can be adapted to other cultural contexts, we identify five generations of gay men alive today and review unique issues related to health and identity development for each. Implications for research, practice, and advocacy on gay men’s health and development are discussed.

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Gay Men’s Health and Identity: Social Change and the Life Course

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“…Through the 1970s, many groups made up of lesbian feminists, sexual liberationists, and gay and lesbian leftists followed a radical agenda and linked their liberation movements to struggles against oppressive struc-tures of colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, racism, and sexism. 74 In the foundational anthology of gay liberation texts Out of the Closets (1972), Karla Jay stated that gay and lesbian liberationists conceived their "oppression as a class struggle and [their] oppressor as white, middle-class, male-dominated heterosexual society." 75 Gays and lesbians envisioned liberation for everyone on the basis of unity of all oppressed people: "there can be no freedom for gays in a society which enslaves others through male supremacy, racism and economic exploitation (capitalism)."…”

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Contested Images: Debates on Nudity, Sexism, and Porn in The Body Politic, 1971–1987

González¹

2019

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This article examines debates on nudity, sexism, and pornography in the Canadian gay and lesbian newspaper The Body Politic, tracing its use of images and people’s responses to them over time. In the 1970s, concerns about sexism and the objectification of the body shaped discussions over sexual and erotic imagery. In the 1980s concerns about pornography were more current, since they mirrored the then-contemporary debates over pornography and censorship. Drawing upon archival sources and oral histories, the article argues that TBP’s visual culture—particularly its sexual and erotic imagery—played a key role in the paper’s community-building project. The article also shows how responses to images reflect a deep ambivalence, and the conflicting perspectives shaping the paper’s production and reception. While liberationist politics, feminist theory, and ideas of a “gay community” influenced the paper throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the meanings that people ascribed to such concepts were diverse and sometimes incompatible.

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“…Informed by countercultural, feminist, and left politics, they celebrated sexual expression but rejected the commodification of sex. 19 Several passages in Coming Out! suggest that Katz supported this political vision.…”

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Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability

Stein¹

2014

Radical History Review

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This essay considers the archival practices, historiographic habits, and political orientations that might explain the resistance to or rejection of the notion that sex radicalism, defined broadly to include various challenges to sexual respectability, was an important component of US homophile activism in the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, the essay asks why important historical and archival projects, including the early work of Jonathan Ned Katz and John D'Emilio and the recent EBSCO LGBT Life digitized database, have paid little attention to Drum, a widely circulating homophile movement periodical that promoted gay sexual liberation, and instead have highlighted the significance of more respectable periodicals such as ONE, Mattachine Review, and the Ladder. In exposing the historical erasure of North America's most popular homophile movement periodical of the 1960s, this essay suggests new ways of thinking about gay and lesbian history, queer memory, and sexual archives.

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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Cited by 92 publications

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Gay Men’s Health and Identity: Social Change and the Life Course

Gay Men’s Health and Identity: Social Change and the Life Course

Contested Images: Debates on Nudity, Sexism, and Porn in The Body Politic, 1971–1987

Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability

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