Title: The Pleasure Principle
Subtitle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom
First published: 1998
Description: While pleasure is antithetical to the moral and governance constructions of the dominant culture, that dominant culture also cannot resist the allure of alternative cultures and sexualities. As gays and lesbians pushed for greater cultural, political and human rights in the 1970s-1990s, there was both acceptance and a rise in anti-gay rhetoric and action in American media, politics and society.
Subjects: Gay culture, Gay rights, Gays, Gays in popular culture, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Pleasure, Public opinion, Conduct of life, Gay and lesbian studies, Public opinion, united states, LGBTQ activism, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist, Homosexuels dans la culture populaire, Homosexuels, Droits, Opinion publique, Homosexualité, LGBTQ anthropology
Places: United States
Time periods: 1900s
LC classification: HQ76.8.U5 B76 1998