Craig Griffiths

The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation

Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the different ways West Germans thought about and discussed being queer in the 1970s; a decade in the midst of the Cold War, sandwiched between the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1969 and the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 1980s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 167mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868965
• ISBN-10: 0198868960
• Artikelnr.: 60780664

Autorenporträt

Craig Griffiths is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches and researches queer history, the history of sexuality, and modern European history. He is an Associate of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and a co-founder and co-convenor of the Seminar Series in the History of Sexuality at the Institute of Historical Research, London. This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The West German gay world after homosexual law reform
2: 'It is not the Homosexual who is perverse': the emergence of gay liberation
3: Gay liberation, "1968", and the alternative left
4: The pink triangle: persecution past and present
5: Thinking and feeling homosexuality
Conclusion