If memory serves
Subtitle: gay men, AIDS, and the promise of the queer past
By: Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed
Contributors: Reed, Christopher, 1961-
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780816676101; 9780816676118
Subjects: Gays; AIDS (Disease); Gay culture; Gay and lesbian studies; Queer theory; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Battles over the gay past: de-generation and the queerness of memory; title: For time immemorial: marking time in the built environment; title: The revolution might be televised: the mass mediation of gay memories; title: Queer theory is burning: sexual revolution and traumatic unremembering; title: Remembering a new queer politics: ideals in the aftermath of identity.