Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left Volume 44

by Emily K. Hobson

Book Overview

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520279069
• ISBN13: 9780520279063
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"