A collection of essays that demonstrate how LGBT people played
critical roles in local, state, and national politics 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, a critically important story in
the changing relationship between sexual minorities and the
government. The 1980s and 1990s marked a period in which religious
right attacks on the civil rights of minorities, including LGBT
people, offered opportunities for activists to create campaigns
that could mobilize a base in mainstream politics and contribute to
the gradual legitimization of sexual minorities in American
society. Beyond the Politics of the Closet features essays by
historians whose work on LGBT history delves into the decades
between the mid-1970s and the millennium, a period in which the
relationship between activist networks, the state, capitalism, and
political parties became infinitely more complicated. Examining the
crucial relationship between sexuality, race, and class, the volume
highlights the impact gay rights politics and activism have had on
the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions
of the 1960s. The three sections of Beyond the Politics of the
Closet conceptualize LGBT politics both chronologically and
thematically. The first section highlights the ways in which the
immediate post-rights revolution period created new demands on the
part of sexual minorities for social services, especially in health
care and housing. The second examines the impact of the AIDS crisis
on different aspects of national and local LGBT politics. The last
section considers how analyzing LGBT politics can reorient our
understanding of "the closet" and illuminate the challenges for
those seeking to integrate questions of sexual rights into broader
political narratives, whether of the left or the right.
Contributors: Ian M. Baldwin, Katie Batza, Jonathan Bell, Julio
Capo, Jr., Rachel Guberman, Clayton Howard, Kevin Mumford, Dan
Royles, Timothy Stewart-Winter
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