Charles, a few days ago you asked me to, "report back to you, " for my summary of the New Left pamphlet by LNS journalist Allen Young, "Gays Under The Cuban Revolution." A hundred pgs. or so. (Just like you asking me to do what you refuse to do, do a book report on A.J. Polan's critique of Lenin's State and Revolution...what next puree Cynthia Enloe's book on bananas and patriarchy and imperialist militarism?) You have never shown any knowledge, over the last 4 or 5 yrs. I have been here, pre-existing on the issues of the relations between gay lib and the Socialist and Communist Left, or have done any of the reading, from lists I have sent at leat 4 or 5 times, most recently just a week ago, of a good # of sources, starting w/, "Gay Men and the History of the Socialist Left, " if my memory serves, the anthology taken from the Journal of Homosexuality, I have cited repeatedly, or volumes on such as Harry Hay, who was in the CPUSA (Will Geer's lover btw, in the 30's) or works by gay left/marxist historians like Jeffrey Weeks, Dennis Altman, Martin Duberman, Jonathan Ned Katz or Sheila Rowbotham, that present a picture of homophobia on the Left ("Give me that 'ol time bourgeois decadence!") that did not begin to break down until the late 70's after protracted struggle.
As Leon Trotsky said many a time, "Once Again On..."
>...http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/2001-
January/016977.html (thread on german maoist homophobes, Neue Einheit,
"Against The Aggressive Homosexualism."
Gay Men and the Sexual History of
> the Political Left," edited by Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis & James
> Steakley,
> (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1995), $24.95 paperback. First
> chapter, in exhaustive detail relates every anti-homosexual comment of
> Marx
> and Engels. And was Karl ever ferocious in his hatred of homosexuals esp.
> those active in the First Int'l.
> Here is a URL for a review by Solidarity member, Peter Drucker.
> http://www.igc.org/solidarity/peter68.txt
Homosexuality: Power and Politics by Gay Left Collective (Paperback - December 1980)
Virtual Equality : The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by URVASHI VAID
Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities by Jeffrey Weeks, also by him, "Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present."
Homosexual Desire (Series Q) by Guy Hocquenghem, et al
Translator of Marx in the 70's, David Fernbach, "Spiral Path: A Gay Contribution to Human Survival."
"The Construction of Homosexuality, " by David F. Greenberg (he also edited, "Crime and Capitalism, " a thick tome.)
"The Homosexualization of America, " by Dennis Altman also see his earlier classic, "Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation." Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr. (editors): "Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past."
Michael Warner (editor): "Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory." (Lingua Franca had a piece on Warner.)
"Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities, " T. de Lauretis.
Steven Epstein, "Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism," Socialist Review 93/93 (1987) reprinted in, "Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy, " by Edward Stein (Editor) (Paperback - May 1992) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources: Table of Contents
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