Beyond the Politics of the Closet : : Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s / / ed. by Jonathan Bell.
In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politics. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s made the battles for access to welfare, health care, and social services for HIV-positive Americans, many of them gay men...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
- Part I. Public Policy Comes Out The 1970s
- 1. A Clinic Comes Out: Idealism, Pragmatism, and Gay Health Services in Boston, 1971–1985
- 2. “A Ray of Sunshine”: Housing, Family, and Gay Political Power in 1970s Los Angeles
- 3. Making Sexual Citizens: LGBT Politics, Health Care, and the State in the 1970s
- Part II. Confronting AIDS
- 4. AIDS and the Urban Crisis: Stigma, Cost, and the Persistence of Racism in Chicago, 1981–1996
- 5. “Don’t We Die Too?”: The Politics of AIDS and Race in Philadelphia
- 6. Black Gay Lives Matter: Mobilizing Sexual Identities in the Eras of Reagan and Thatcher Conservatism
- Part III. Beyond Liberalism and Conservatism
- 7. Gay and Conservative: An Early History of the Log Cabin Republicans
- 8. “No Discrimination & No Special Rights”: Gay Rights, Family Values, and the Politics of Moderation in the 1992 Election
- 9. Homophobia Baiting: Queering the Trayvon Martin Archives and Challenging the AntiBlackness of Color-Blind Politics
- NOTES
- List of Contributors
- Index