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Pink Triangle Legacies
Pink Triangle Legacies traces
the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration
camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread,
recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and
community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the
Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer
survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement,
compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this
context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink
triangle-a reminder of Germany's fascist past-as the visual marker
of gay liberation, seeking to end queer people's status as
second-class citizens by asserting their right to express their
identity openly.
The reclamation of the pink triangle occurred first in West
Germany, but soon activists in the United States adopted this
chapter from German history as their own. As gay activists on
opposite sides of the Atlantic grafted pink triangle memories onto
new contexts, they connected two national communities and helped
form the basis of a shared gay history, indeed a new gay identity,
that transcended national borders.
Pink Triangle Legacies illustrates the dangerous
consequences of historical silencing and how the incorporation of
hidden histories into the mainstream understanding of the past can
contribute to a more inclusive experience of belonging in the
present. There can be no justice without acknowledging and
remembering injustice. As Newsome demonstrates, if a marginalized
community seeks a history that liberates them from the confines of
silence, they must often write it themselves.
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Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Based on pioneering research on the history of homosexualities in Africa and current lgbti activism, Marc Epprecht provides a sympathetic overview of the issues at play, and a hopeful outlook on the potential of sexual rights for all.
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From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals
From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvador's revolutionary war (1980-92). In the process they became transformed from popular intellectuals to insurgent intellectuals who put their organizational and cognitive skills at the service of a collective effort to create a more egalitarian and democratic society. The book highlights the key roles that peasant catechists in northern Morazán played in disseminating liberation theology before the war and supporting the FMLN during it—as quartermasters, political activists, and musicians, among other roles. Throughout, From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals highlights the dialectical nature of relations between Catholic priests and urban revolutionaries, among others, in which the latter learned from the former and vice-versa. Peasant catechists proved capable at making independent decisions based on assessment of their needs and did not simply follow the dictates of those with superior authority, and played an important role for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict.
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Pink Revolutions
Pink Revolutions describes how queer politics in India
occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal
globalization, on the one hand, and the nationalist Hindu
fundamentalism that has emerged since the 1990s, on the other.
While neoliberal forces use queerness to highlight India's
democratic credentials and stature within a globalized world,
nationalist voices claim that queer movements in the country pose a
threat to Indian national identity. Nishant Shahani argues that
this tension implicates queer politics within messy entanglements
and knotted ideological triangulations, geometries of power in
which local understandings of \"authentic\" nationalism brush up
against global agendas of multinational capital. Eschewing
structures of absolute complicity or abject alterity, Pink
Revolutions pays attention to the logics of triangulation in
various contexts: gay tourism, university campus politics,
diasporic cultural productions, and AIDS activism. The book
articulates a framework through which queer politics can challenge
rather than participate in neoliberal imperatives, an approach that
will interest scholars engaged with queer studies and postcolonial
scholarship, as well as activists and academics wrestling with
global capitalism and right-wing regimes around the world.
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Liberating Lawrence
The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has
typically been told from the perspective of the coasts-in places
like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the Midwest town of
Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas (KU) and a
thriving location for activist organizations in the 1960s, had an
important role to play in the national story of LGBTQ activism in
the United States.
Liberating Lawrence tells the first-hand story of the
Lawrence Gay Liberation Front (LGLF), a KU student organization
that began in 1970. Having conducted sixty-seven interviews with
people who were involved at the time, author Katherine Rose-Mockry
focuses on the group's early formative years between the founding
and 1979, during which time the members of LGLF had to fight for
their right to exist on campus as an official student group.
Inspired by a class project that led him to interview local members
of the LGBTQ community, David Stout initiated the formation of the
LGLF in the summer of 1970 to provide a safe space for gay students
to meet each other and to establish a base of operations for
student activism on campus. The group focused on educating the
campus about the experience of being gay. They formed a speakers'
bureau in their opening months and gave frequent presentations at
KU and nearby campuses. In addition to raising awareness and
providing counseling services, the group was also self-consciously
political from the start and advocated for equal protections,
employment rights, and the elimination of laws criminalizing
same-sex sexual activity.
The university administration, however, did not welcome the
formation of the LGLF. Three times the chancellor rejected their
request for recognition. This led the group to file a lawsuit
against the university in 1971, and the famous cause lawyer William
Kunstler, who had previously defended the Chicago Seven in 1969,
agreed to represent them-a development that received national media
attention. While the LGLF lost the legal battle, they ultimately
won the war to change the campus culture.
Katherine Rose-Mockry has written the definitive history of gay
and lesbian activism at the public universities of Kansas.
Liberating Lawrence is a major contribution to our
understanding of the fight for gay pride and LGBTQ civil rights,
both locally and nationally.
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