Title: If memory serves : gay men, AIDS, and the promise of the queer past /
Authors: Castiglia, Christopher; Reed, Christopher, 1961-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Gays United States History.; Gay culture United States History.; AIDS (Disease) Social aspects United States; Queer theory United States.; Gay and lesbian studies United States.
Abstract: This book presents an alternative perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture that the author argues stems from the suppression and repression of collective gay memory.
Contents: Battles over the gay past: de-generation and the queerness of memory -- For time immemorial: marking time in the built environment -- The revolution might be televised: the mass mediation of gay memories -- Queer theory is burning: sexual revolution and traumatic unremembering -- Remembering a new queer politics: ideals in the aftermath of identity.