Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left Volume 44

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.

Author: Emily K. Hobson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 10/04/2016
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520279063
ISBN10: 0520279069
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism
- Political Science | History & Theory | General

About the Author
Emily K. Hobson is Associate Professor of History and of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno.