LEADER 03628nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910791946003321 005 20231003174944.0 010 $a1-78170-159-8 010 $a1-84779-233-2 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847792334 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085801 035 $a(EBL)1069568 035 $a(OCoLC)818847286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12249036 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10651298 035 $a(PQKB)11109571 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085730 035 $a(OCoLC)1132665750 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78055 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069568 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623257 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843538 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069568 035 $a(DE-B1597)660222 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847792334 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085801 100 $a20080716d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGay men and the left in post-war Britain$b[electronic resource] $ehow the personal got political /$fLucy Robinson 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aCritical labour movement studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-8639-6 311 $a0-7190-7434-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPolitics and culture: homosexuality and the Left in post-war Britain -- Reporting change: law reform, homosexual identity and the role of counter-culture -- Gay liberation 1969-73: praxis, protest and performance -- The Left gets personal: identity, performance and the Left 1972-79 -- The next big thing: from Gay Left Collective to Greater London Council, paedophile identity and the state of the Left -- Confronting Thatcher: the Bermondsey by-election, lesbians and gays support the miners and AIDS activism. 330 $aThis book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics. While the Left were fighting among themselves and the reformists were struggling with the limits of law reform, gay men started organising for themselves, first individually within existing organisations and later rejecting formal political structures altogether. Culture, performance and identity took over from economics and class struggle, as gay men worked to change the world through the politics of sexua 410 0$aCritical labour movement studies series. 606 $aGay men$xPolitical activity$zGreat Britain 606 $aGay liberation movement$zGreat Britain 606 $aPolitics, Practical$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1945- 610 $aAIDS. 610 $aGay Liberation Front. 610 $aNew Left. 610 $aStalinism. 610 $aTrotskyism. 610 $afeminism. 610 $agay activism. 610 $agay men. 610 $apolitics of sexuality. 610 $ayouth movements. 615 0$aGay men$xPolitical activity 615 0$aGay liberation movement 615 0$aPolitics, Practical 676 $a320.0866420941 700 $aRobinson$b Lucy$c(Professor of history)$01584351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791946003321 996 $aGay men and the left in post-war Britain$93868064 997 $aUNINA