If memory serves: Gay men, AIDS, and the promise of the queer past
- London University of Minnesota press 2012
- 259 p. ill. Includes bibliographical reference and index
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS.
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Queer theory United States Gay and lesbian studies AIDS disease Social aspects