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...
| Published in: | GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies |
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| Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2008
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| Online Access: | http://glq.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/15/1/31 https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-018 |
| 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. |
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