This book, newly available in paperback, demonstrates how the
personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that
attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the
nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among
themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of
law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first
individually within existing organisations and later rejecting
formal political structures altogether. Gay activists intersected
with Trotskyism, Stalinism, the New Left, feminism and youth
movements. As the slogan of the Gay Liberation Front proclaimed,
'Come out, come together and change the world'. Culture,
performance and identity took over from economics and class
struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the
politics of sexuality. Throughout the post-war years, the new cult
of the teenager in the 1950s, CND and the counter-culture of the
1960s, gay liberation, feminism, the Punk movement and the miners'
strike of 1984 all helped to build a politics of identity. When
AIDS and Thatcherism impacted on gay men's lives in the 1980s, gay
politics came into its own. There is an assumption among many of
today's politicians that young people are apathetic and disengaged.
This book argues that these politicians are looking in the wrong
place. People now feel that they can impact the world through the
way in which they live, shop, have sex and organise their private
lives. Robinson shows that gay men and their politics have been
central to this change in the post-war world. This book will be
valuable for students and academics of Politics, Modern British
History, Media and Cultural Studies and Gender Studies as well as
those interested in gay or left-wing history and politics.
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