Gay men and the left in post-war Britain
Subtitle: how the personal got political
By: Lucy Robinson.
Series: Critical labour movement studies; Critical labour movement studies series
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780719074349
Subjects: Gay men -- Great Britain -- Political activity; Gay rights movement -- Great Britain; Politics, Practical -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics and culture: homosexuality and the Left in post-war Britain; title: Reporting change: law reform, homosexual identity and the role of counter-culture; title: Gay liberation 1969-73: praxis, protest and performance; title: The Left gets personal: identity, performance and the Left 1972-79; title: The next big thing: from Gay Left Collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the Left; title: Confronting Thatcher: the Bermondsey by-election, lesbians and gays support the miners and AIDS activism.