Over the Rainbow: Money, Class and Homophobia

By Nicola Field

First published in 1995, Nicola Field's Over the Rainbow confronts the political contradictions in the LGBT+ movement and contains one of the earliest first-hand accounts from the frontlines of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, featured in the hit film Pride. Written at a time when LGBT+ people enjoyed increased visibility but faced continued discrimination and assault from conservative governments, Over the Rainbow sets an agenda for resistance rooted in class politics and shatters the myth of a unified LGBT+ 'community'. Including fresh material, this expanded edition considers the impact of Pride and the challenges ahead for LGBT+ activism in the 21st century. Nicola Field, an original member of LGSM, is a London-based writer, artist and activist. She has written for Diva, Socialist Review and Ambit; exhibited at the V&A and the British Film Institute; and spoken on political platforms internationally.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907133941
• ISBN13: 9781907133947
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Dog Horn Publishing
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This should be required reading

I honestly cannot recommend this book enough. As a queer person and a Marxist, I am often dismayed by the LGBT movement's myopia concerning other arenas of political struggle. I believe that our movement, feminism, anti-racism, and environmentalism etc. need to be linked to a more comprehensive movement to transform society at its very roots. Nicola Field articulates that vision. She provides a long-awaited analysis of the intersections of sexual and gender identity with class, as well as giving a supert immanent critique of the mainstream LGBT movement, which is dominated by bourgeois perspectives, from a rigorously Marxist perspective. I don't agree with everything she says (particularly some of her analyses concerning the family) but overall, this book needs to be on more shelves. I'm dismayed, but not particularly surprised, that this book is so obscure. I am doing what I can to popularize it.