1st Edition
Coming on Strong Gay Politics and Culture
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 Simon Watney 2. AIDS and the cultural response Sue Ellis and Paul Heritage 3. Homophobia/misogyny Joseph Bristow 4. Business as usual Mark Finch 5. Freud and his uses John Fletcher 6. Theories of sexual identity and the masculinization of the gay man Jamie Gough 7. You don’t need bars to build a jail Ben Perks 8. The contradictory politics of SM Mike Macnair 9. Black, Brown and White Sunil Gupta 10. Sexual fix, sexual surveillance Les Moran 11. A conversation about pornography Richard Dyer 12. Gay sex spy orgy Simon Shepherd 13. Gays and the press Terry Sanderson 14. Westminster barbarism Andrew Lumsden 15. Gays and Marxism Bill Marshall 16. A conversation about rock, politics and gays Tom Robinson 17. Gramsci-the-goalie Mick Wallis Index
Biography
Edited by Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis.
