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"The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each of the 22 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate in relation to activism-that is the claims, strategies and mobilisations (including internal debates and divisions, impediments and state responses) of the lesbian and gay movement. By drawing together leading scholars from political science, sociology, anthropology and history this companion provides an up to the minute snapshot of current scholarship as well as signposting several fruitful avenues for future research."--Publisher's description

The roots of activism : homosexuals and Christian evangelicals before the fight -- The conflict emerges in the 1970s -- Organizational development through the 1980s -- Where's the party? Entering the Republican and Democratic folds -- Taking to the streets : protest and direct democracy -- Culture wars : battles for the hearts and minds of America -- The impact of the religious right on lesbian and gay activism

This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.

Preliminary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Fear and Morality -- 1. The 'Homosexual Cancer': AIDS = gay -- 2. Innocent Identities -- Part Two: (Mis)trust and Medicine -- 3. Public Health and AIDS Activism -- 4. Treatment Action -- Part Three: Grief and Activism -- 5. Rites of Belonging: The AIDS Memorial Quilt -- Epilogue: Bug Chasers and Criminals -- Bibliography -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Legato in Turkey: Literacy, Media, and Global Sexualities -- Legato Overview -- The Globalization of Lesbian and Gay Identities, Transnational Rhetorics, and Literacy -- Literacies and Sponsors: Sexuality, Community, and Technology -- Methodology and Chapter Descriptions -- 2: From Queer Empire to Heterosexual Republic: Modernity, Homosexuality, and Media -- The Complexity of Sexuality in the Middle East -- Same-Sex Desire and Practices in the Ottoman Empire -- Sexuality and Media in the Republic of Turkey -- The Emergence of Community Media: Kaos GL and Its Critique of Mass Media Representations of Homosexuality -- Collegiate Lesbian and Gay Visual Rhetoric -- Print Media and the Public's Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Turkey in the 2000s -- Media Representations and Lesbian and Gay Agency -- 3: Coming Out and Legato Members' Narratives of Sexual Literacy -- Methods -- Ünal -- Bilal -- Nalan -- Umut -- Deniz -- Gateways, Sponsors, and the Accumulation of Sexual Literacies -- The Gateways and Sponsors of Lesbian and Gay Literacies -- The Gateways and Sponsors of Heterosexual Literacy -- Coming Out, Literacy, and Community -- 4: Paper Tigers in Digital Closets? Lesbian and Gay Activism, the Internet, and Community Literacy -- Community, Literacy, and the Turkish Political Context -- Local LGBT Advocacy Organizations, Legato, and the Internet -- Zeynep: Kaos GL, Legato METU, and Daughters of Sappho -- Ünal: Kaos GL, Halega, Gay Ankara, and Legato -- Deniz: Lambda Istanbul and Legato -- Initiation and Membership at Established Organizations and the Origins of LGBT Students' Self-Organizing -- The Emergence of Subgroups (Computer-Mediated Initiation and Membership) and Their Internet-Mediated Positioning in Relation to the Host Organization.

This book looks at the many opportunities for teen activism and shows how more teens can get involved in causes that are important to them. Among the causes most important to teens covered in this book are campaigns for animal rights and world peace and against sexual violence, discrimination, and hate crimes. The book also discusses the pro and cons of hot bed issues like gun control and immigration reform.

This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of 'queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines the PRC's socialist legacy and considers how the country is undergoing rapid transformations under the influence of transnational capitalism. Moreover, although the first of its kind from a cultural studies perspective, this interdisciplinary study speaks to scholars working in disparate fields and provides a sorely needed historical perspective on a very recent phenomenon: queer activism in China. Combining textual analysis of contemporary queer films, fiction and personal diaries, in conjunction with ethnographic research conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou's urban gay communities, the book offers a queer Marxist analysis of sexual identity and social movements in contemporary China, where ideological negotiations between socialism and neoliberalism are constantly played out in the formation of public cultures and intimate spheres. Here, the book critically assesses the role of Marxism and China's socialist legacy in shaping sexual identity, queer popular culture and political activism. Apart from its rich data and incisive analysis, the book has a freshness and persuasiveness in approach and argument. The text is also pleasant and readable, with the author's intelligence, engagement and sunny humour shining through his writing.

This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of 'queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines the PRC's socialist legacy and considers how the country is undergoing rapid transformations under the influence of transnational capitalism. Moreover, although the first of its kind from a cultural studies perspective, this interdisciplinary study speaks to scholars working in disparate fields and provides a sorely needed historical perspective on a very recent phenomenon: queer activism in China.0Combining textual analysis of contemporary queer films, fiction and personal diaries, in conjunction with ethnographic research conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou's urban gay communities, the book offers a queer Marxist analysis of sexual identity and social movements in contemporary China, where ideological negotiations between socialism and neoliberalism are constantly played out in the formation of public cultures and intimate spheres. Here, the book critically assesses the role of Marxism and China's socialist legacy in shaping sexual identity, queer popular culture and political activism. Apart from its rich data and incisive analysis, the book has a freshness and persuasiveness in approach and argument. The text is also pleasant and readable, with the author's intelligence, engagement and sunny humour shining through his writing

In Solidarity: Friendship, Family, and Activism Beyond Gay and Straight shows what being an ally (in this case to LGBTQ+ persons and communities) requires, means, and does. Through prose, poetry, performance text, and film, the work takes readers inside relationships across sexual orientation and serves as an exemplar of activist scholarship. In Solidarity makes a unique and compelling contribution to courses on LGBTQ+ studies, sexualities, gender, identity, relationships, or the family.

Irish homosexuals are revolting, 1973-78 -- Social life as resistance in 1980s Dublin -- 1980s provincial activism: Cork and Galway -- Gay rights are not extravagant demands -- Ireland was ill-equipped to deal with the AIDs epidemic -- Gay rights: it's time.

Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the ""model minority"" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US. Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and

Gay marriage in an era of media visibility -- Fighting "the battle to be boring": marriage as a portal into the mainstream -- "The marrying kind": the face of gay marriage in the news -- Gay marriage goes prime-time: journalistic norms frame the debate -- Speaking out: representing gay perspectives in news discourse -- The trouble with marriage