Politics
| Outhouse East Library | 1 / 5 | |||
| Cover | Details | Summary | ||
 | Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation | When Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation was first published in 1971, The New York Review of Books, hailed it as the only work that bears comparison...with the best to appear from Women's Liberation. Time wrote that, among the whole tumble of homosexuals who have `come out of the closet', perhaps best among these accounts is a book by Dennis Altman. Long out of print, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation remains a seminal work in the gay liberation movement. Altman examines the different positions promoting gay liberation, and recognizes the healthy diversity in these divisions. Elaborating on the writers of the emergent movement - James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Herbert Marcuse, Kate Millett, and others - Homosexual suggests that we can nurture a common, progressive movement out of our shared sexuality and experience of a heterosexist society. | ||
| Dennis Altman | ||||
| 1974 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL001 | ||||
 | Sexing the City: Lesbian and Gay Politics Within the Activist State | In the 1980s a number of left-led local authorities in Britain attempted to develop a range of radical and innovative equal opportunities policies. Few proved as controversial and contested as those to promote lesbian and gay equality. In a wide-ranging discussion, drawing on cultural theory and the ideological potential of local government, Davina Cooper critically analyses the rise and fall of lesbian and gay politics in the local state. She moves from the conflicting aims of the activists and the compromises forces upon them by the demands of political practicality, to the inherent limitations of a politics oriented towards pushing radical change through the bureaucratic procedures of local town halls, and the mobilisation of a right-wing, grassroots opposition. | ||
| Davina Cooper | ||||
| 1994 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL002 | ||||
 | With Friends Like These...: Marxism and Gay Politics | A critique of the Left's credibility on gay rights that exposes the intellectual and political inadequacies of the Left's understanding of the situation. It aims to clarify the options for the future of the gay rights movement beyond the discredited politics of the SWP, RCP or Labour Movement. | ||
| Simon Edge | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL003 | ||||
 | Prejudice and Pride: Discrimination Against Gay People in Modern Britain | Prejudice and Pride chronicles legal and social discrimination against gay people living in Britain today. The book alerts its readers to the ways in which gay men and women are treated in our society and how discrimination in each area can be tackled. This book speaks to us all, providing a blueprint for action through the 1980s. The book acknowledges the action and support of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality. | ||
| Bruce Galloway | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
| Gay, Law, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL004 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 2 / 5 | |||
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 | Homosexuality: Power and Politics | Homosexuality: Power and Politics brings together seventeen articles which break new ground in the discussion of sexual politics. Drawing on a variety of experiences and intellectual influences, the authors sum up the gains of the gay and women's movements of the 1970s, and offer and agenda for sexual politics in the 1980s. A wide range of political positions is represented: the book opens up lines of debate rather than foreclosing discussion. What all the authors share is a commitment to developing a radical politics in which the gains of the women's and gay movements will be fully integrated. Topics covered include the development of sexual oppression under capitalism, forms of resistance to it, the problems of political organisation, the possibilities of alternative moralities and ways of life, the nature of gay culture, and personal affirmations of gay and lesbian consciousness. | ||
| Gay Left Collective | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Feminism, Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL005 | ||||
 | Over the Rainbow Lesbian and Gay Politics | On a hot evening in the summer of 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, setting in motion a riot which many see as the start of the fight for the equal treatment of male and female homosexuals by society and the law. Tying in with a Channel 4 documentary series, this book brings together the voices of those marching behind the "rainbow flag" and their experiences since the Stonewall riot. The reminiscinces incorporate the AIDS crisis, confronting the fundamentalist Christian backlash, campaigning for an end to the ban against homosexuals in the military, and engineering the 1993 march on Washington. | ||
| David Deitcher, Mab Segrest, Dale Peck, Jewelle Gomez | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Gay, History, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL006 | ||||
 | Speaking Out: Sex, Law, Politics and Society 1954-95 | In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law reform in the 1960s. The articles and talks reprinted in this book (together with others published here for the first time) cover the whole span of Grey's campaigning life, ranging from his first, anonymous, letter to the press about homosexuality written in 1954 to his thoughts on present-day sexual politics in the 1990s. Topics covered include law reform, religious and social attitudes to homosexuality, sex education, young people and sex, and the gay movement. The book concludes with a newly-written essay reviewing the progress achieved since the middle of this century and assessing what remains to be done as we enter the coming one. | ||
| Antony Grey | ||||
| 1997 | ||||
| Gay, Law, Lesbian, Politics, Religion, Sex | ||||
| Book#: POL007 | ||||
 | Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from the Body Politic | Flaunting It! is an anthology of the best writing to appear in the Canadian gay periodical The Body Politic since its first issue in November 1971. More than thirty lesbian and gay writers contribute to this pioneering examination of the ways in which a brash new political movement has changed the personal lives and political struggles of Canadian homosexuals in the Seventies. Five chapters bursting with great gay journalism: Risks; Living our lives; The making of the image of the modern homosexual; Advice on consent and other unfinished business; In the courts, on the hustings, in the street. | ||
| Stan Persky, Ed Jackson | ||||
| 1982 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL008 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 3 / 5 | |||
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 | Sexual Politics | A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors―D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet―and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples taught a generation to recognize inequities masquerading as nature and proved the value of feminist critique in all facets of life. | ||
| Kate Millett | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
| Art/Photography, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: POL009 | ||||
 | The Politics of Homosexuality | This booklet outlines key political issues relating to homosexuality and the gay movement. | ||
| Don Milligan | ||||
| 1973 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL010 | ||||
 | Pink Triangles: Radical Perspectives on Gay Liberation | What happens when gay issues are examined from a radical perspective? The result can be exciting for anyone who's struggling to build a better society for all people. The essays in this anthology offer new perspectives on such subjects as: Pornography - Where does sex end and sexism begin? In response to feminist criticism of pornography, many lesbians and gay men are seeking to develop erotica that celebrates our sexuality but that does not depend on victims. Subversion - Gay male and lesbian culture is subversive, and the people in power know it. Individuals who break the rules about who to love make convenient victims. But what happens when the victims get together and develop a culture of their own, a culture that challenges some of the basic beliefs upholding capitalism? No wonder they take out children and raid our bars and make outlaws of us. Save Our Children - Some gay rights advocates claim that this right-wing slogan diverts attention from the "real" issues of gay libera... | ||
| Pam Mitchell | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Culture, Erotica, Feminism, Gay, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL011 | ||||
 | Moral Panic: Exposing the Religious Right's Agenda on Sexuality | This study examines the hypocrisy and double-standards which exist within contemporary notions of the nuclear family and "back-to-basics" morality. It shows how the nuclear family does not represent the norm and how "moral values" promoted by the Church and state are perpetuating homophobia. | ||
| Terri Murray, Michael McClure | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Family, Homophobia, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: POL012 | ||||
 | The Left and the Erotic | The rise of the women's and gay movements has thrown into sharp relief the vexed relationship between political activism and personal relationships. This collection examines these issues and the connections and barriers between sexual politics and the politics of the left. It addresses itself to socialists as people not just as paper-sellers or wage-earners. | ||
| Eileen Phillips | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
| Erotica, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL013 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 4 / 5 | |||
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 | The Sexual Outlaw | The parks, alleys, tunnels, garages, streets and beaches of Los Angeles are the battleground of the sexual outlaw in John Rechy's stunning account of three days and nights in the sexual underground. Rechy juxtaposes documentation and personal statement with the experiences of a sometime male hustler as he cruises L.A. in seach of transitory, anonymous sexual encounters, in a book of passion and rage, of eroticism and despair: a powerful, angry outcry against oppression. | ||
| John Rechy | ||||
| 1979 | ||||
| Gay, Politics, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: POL014 | ||||
 | Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women's Human Rights | Women's rights have recently been brought to world attention at the UN 4th International Conference on Women, held in Beijing. This text provides a comprehensive reference to human rights abuses perpetrated against women in 31 different countries. The book places lesbian human rights within the broader framework of women's human rights, arguing for a women's movement which contains the most inclusive vision of human rights. | ||
| Rachel Rosenbloom | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| Feminism, Gender, Law, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL015 | ||||
 | Socialism and the New Life: The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis | Edward Carpenter was a prominent figure in the late ninetheenth-century socialist revival, and his work and example inspired a generation of people in the labour movement. He was also a poet and mystic, a penal reformer and advocate of a simpler life, a homosexual who ardently supported feminist aspirations. Havelock Ellis is best known today as a pioneer of sex psychology, but he was also a writer on literature, the arts, travel, philosophy and social policy. Like Carpenter he developed his earliest political beliefs in the small socialist groups of the 1880's and was a founder of the Fellowship of the New Life. In their different ways, Carpenter through his political involvement and own way of life, Ellis through the influence of his books, they raised important questions about the interconnections between personal and sexual life and radical social change, questions which remain unresolved in modern socialist debates. In critically examining the achievements of these two men, Soci... | ||
| Jeffrey Weeks, Sheila Rowbotham | ||||
| 1977 | ||||
| Feminism, Gay, Politics, Sexuality | ||||
| Book#: POL016 | ||||
 | Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homsexuality | Virtually Normal is an exploration of today's principal arguments about homosexuality, from the Catholic church to Michel Foucault. It is a book not about individual feelings but about the way society deals - or does not deal - with the homosexual minority. And, finally, it charts a new politics to lead us out of our cultural and political impasse - based not on the behaviour of the private citizen but on the activity of the state - and argues for full equality for homosexuals, especially in marriage and in the military. Virtually Normal is a political and moral treatise in the grand tradition. Impassioned, reasoned, subtle and uncompromising, it will set the terms of the debate on homosexuality for years to come; and will enable the bitter and unfocused arguments relating to outing, established religion and anti-gay prejudice to have an intellectual - and ultimately pragmatic - framework. | ||
| Andrew Sullivan | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Politics, Religion | ||||
| Book#: POL017 | ||||
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| Outhouse East Library | 5 / 5 | |||
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 | The Battle for Bermondsey | The Battle for Bermondsey was a battle for Labour's soul. In the most turbulent period of the party's recent history, Bermondsey came to symbolise the struggle of the left for party democracy and redical socialist policies. Bermondsey represented, in microcosm, the grassroots resurgence under way throughout the Labour party since the 1970s. Peter Tatchell tells how a local Labour party, decaying under right-wing control, was revitalised to campaign for the needs of an inner-city community, despite the extraordinary machinations of the party hierarchy to block this revival. Intitally banned as Labour candidate, Tatchell explains his view on extra-parliamentary action, gay rights and a "new style" of MP which made him unacceptable to the Labour establishment. Vilified as an extremist, foreigner, draft-dodger, homosexual and traitor, he revels the full extent of the hate mail, smears and death threats that marked the dirtiest by-election since the war. The tactics used against Tatchell... | ||
| Peter Tatchell | ||||
| 1983 | ||||
| Gay, Law, Lesbian, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL018 | ||||
 | We Don't Want to March Straight: Masculinity, Queers and the Military | A critique of the "assimilation" for assimilation's sake case for admitting gays into the military, and an expose of human rights abuses by the British military since 1945. This text proposes a philosophy based on a long term vision rather than the short termist campaigns that currently exist. | ||
| Peter Tatchell | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Gay, Law, Politics, Queer | ||||
| Book#: POL019 | ||||
 | The Gay Militants | The Gay Militants chronicles the early beginnings of the gay liberation movement. It includes such things as first-hand accounts from the Stonewall riots, and a discussion of the LGBT community before Stonewall. | ||
| Donn Teal | ||||
| 1971 | ||||
| Gay, Politics | ||||
| Book#: POL020 | ||||
 | Fighting Words: An Open Letter to Queers and Radicals | Fighting Words is about identity and solidarity in an age of global corporations and epidemics, when the borders of the body politic can still get very personal. It is a brief guide to sexual politics from Oscar Wilde to outing, from Sojourner Truth to Kate Millet, from suffragettes to Lesbian Avengers. Finally, it is a survey of liberalism in retreat, of the far right's advancing "cultural war," and a call for more coherent resistance among radicals and queers. | ||
| Scott Tucker | ||||
| 1995 | ||||
| Feminism, Gay, Lesbian, Politics, Queer | ||||
| Book#: POL021 | ||||
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