Transnationalism and Homophile Political Culture in the Postwar Decades

This article grows out of a larger project on homophile internationalism that linked Europe and North America organizations, activists and writing during the post-war decades. More than just participating in a North Atlantic exchange, these homophile activists had a global vision, one that sought to...

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Published in:GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Main Author: Churchill, David S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2009
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-018
https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-pdf/15/1/31/276353/GLQ15.1_02_Churchill.pdf
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Summary:This article grows out of a larger project on homophile internationalism that linked Europe and North America organizations, activists and writing during the post-war decades. More than just participating in a North Atlantic exchange, these homophile activists had a global vision, one that sought to uncover, explore and archive same-sex intimacies worldwide. Utilizing travel writing, ethnographic studies and personal memoirs homophiles produced a popular anthropological account of homosexuality, one they implicitly linked to Cold War human rights discourse, liberal law reform, and normative social claims.