First published in 1989, Coming on Strong addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of those most controversial minorities in 1980s Britain.
First published in 1989, Coming on Strong addresses itself to anyone, whatever their sexuality, who wants to know why gay men have become one of those most controversial minorities in 1980s Britain. What are the issues and what is to be done? This thoughtful and stimulating book looks at the relationship of gay men to law, politics and masculinity; at the specific position of Asian gays and young people; and at the threat to civil liberties posed by the homosexual law reform. Alongside analysis of the modern gay scene, there are accounts from the inside of various areas of gay work and politics. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, queer studies and cultural studies.
Biographical notes Acknowledgements Introduction
1. Psychoanalysis,
sexuality and AIDS
2. AIDS and the cultural response
3. Homophobia/misogyny
4. Business as usual
5. Freud and his uses
6. Theories of sexual identity and
the masculinization of the gay man
7. You dont need bars to build a jail
8.
The contradictory politics of SM
9. Black, Brown and White
10. Sexual fix,
sexual surveillance
11. A conversation about pornography
12. Gay sex spy orgy
13. Gays and the press
14. Westminster barbarism
15. Gays and Marxism
16. A
conversation about rock, politics and gays
17. Gramsci-the-goalie Index
Edited by Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis.
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