- 318 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Biographical Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Psychoanalysis, sexuality and AIDS
- 2 AIDS and the cultural response: The Normal Heart and We All Fall Down
- 3 Homophobia/misogyny: Sexual fears, sexual definitions
- 4 Business as usual: Substitution and sex in Prick Up Your Ears and other recent gay-themed movies
- 5 Freud and his uses: Psychoanalysis and gay theory
- 6 Theories of sexual identity and the masculinization of the gay man
- 7 You don't need bars to build a jail: The politics of sexuality in care
- 8 The contradictory politics of SM
- 9 Black, Brown and White
- 10 Sexual fix, sexual surveillance: Homosexual in law
- 11 A conversation about pornography
- 12 Gay sex spy orgy: The state's need for queers
- 13 Gays and the press
- 14 Westminster barbarism
- 15 Gays and Marxism
- 16 A conversation about rock, politics, and gays
- 17 Gramsci-the-goalie: Reflections in the bath on gays, the Labour Party and socialism
- Index