num_pages: 196
description: 'Feeling Backward' weighs the cost of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. It makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. Love argues that instead of moving on we need to look backward.
language: English
title: Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
publisher: Harvard University Press