After the leadg anizatns of radil sexual polics - the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Marxist Group - implod or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a rearch group to make sense of the changg terra of sexualy and polics wr large. Its goal was to formulate a rigoro Marxist analysis of se
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GAY LEFT: A SOCIALIST JOURNAL PRODUCED BY GAY MEN
Homosexualy: Power and Polics: 9781788732406: Gay Left Collective: Books * gay left book *
A socialist journal eded by gay men the 1970sAfter the leadg anizatns of radil sexual polics - the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Marxist Group - implod or dissolved, the Gay Left Collective formed a rearch group to make sense of the changg terra of sexualy and polics wr large. Its goal was to formulate a rigoro Marxist analysis of sexual opprsn, while lkg together the stggle agast homophobia wh a wir array of stggl, all unr the banner of socialism. Its goal was to formulate a rigoro Marxist analysis of sexual opprsn, while lkg together the stggle agast homophobia wh a wir array of stggl, all unr the banner of anthology b the very bt of their work, explorg masculy and workplace anizg, unterculture and dis, the survivals of victorian moraly and the onset of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Gay Left enpsulat a particular moment lbian and gay history, and the liv of s edors and wrers. The journal first appeared the tumn/fall of 1975, though the members of the ial edorial llective had been meetg for a year before this discsg the project, and some of had been gay Marxist discsn and readg groups together for even longer than that.
The first flh of gay liberatn energy had to a certa extent dispersed, but was a perd when gay ias neverthels were spreadg electrilly to a huge variety of areas – wrg, film, art, theatre, televisn, history, the amy, tra unns, tn, even mastream polics - the ntext of an unprecented explosn of the gay and lbian muny. The opportuni seemed endls, spe, possibly bee of, the equent setbacks lbian and gay people enuntered For was also a perd of tense polil polarisatn, as the optimism of the prev harned to a grim rilience unr the impact of high flatn, growg unemployment, ternatnal tensn and a real sense of an end of an era. There was a feelg that this was a time to stand up and be unted, and for many of who had e of age the cultural revolutn of the 1960s and the early 1970s, and had seen our view of the world transformed by the explosive emergence of gay polics, that meant posng ourselv firmly wh the left.
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Five years later, as the edorial llective announced GL 10 a pse publitn to enable a thk about what we wanted to do next – 10 issu and an eded book (Homosexualy: Power and Polics published 1980) proved an exhstg if exhilaratg journey together – the climate had changed dramatilly, and fact we soon dissolved as a group. It was also, though we did not know at the time, jt a year or so before the HIV/AIDS crisis transformed the ndns of gay life for ever. But what now strik me on re-readg the 10 volum for the first time a long time, is how well we ptured the dreams and reali, hop and tratns of gay and lbian liv durg the 1970s, and the extent to which you n see the pag the shape of the dramatic polil and cultural chang that cisively end the long 1960s, and brought about a new polil era.
The Gay Left Collective. The llective that me together 1974 to plan what was not then known as ‘Gay Left’ (the tle me at the last mute after long and anguished discsns) nsisted of ne people.
LGBT activism is often imaged as a self-ntaed stggle, spired by but set apart om other social movements. Lavenr and Red reunts a far different story: a history of queer radils who unrstood their sexual liberatn as tertwed wh solidary agast imperialism, war, and racism. This polics was born the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propellg a gay and lbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. * gay left book *
We were London based, though fact only one of was born and bred London: like most lbians and gays we were migrants to the big cy. Ccially, all of one way or another had been radilised through our experience of the gay movement.
What unified and brought together Gay Left was a double ncern: to enter a dialogue wh the gay movement about socialism; and to nont the socialist and labour movements wh the ias of gay liberatn.
Alongsi more historil articl like ‘Where Engels Feared to Tread’ (GL 1), which traced the evolutn of Marxist attus towards sexualy and genr, were articl on stggl the workplace like ‘Gays and Tra Unns’ GL 1, ‘The Gay Workers’ Movement’ (GL 2), ‘All Worked UP’ (GL 3), ‘Gays at Work’ (GL 6 and 7), and ‘Work Place Polics: Gay Polics’ (GL 10); and piec on the attus of leftist anisatns towards the gay issue, such as ‘A Grim Tale’, about the Internatnal Socialists’ Gay Group (GL 3) or ‘Communists’ Comment’ (GL 4). GL 5 rried a piece on ‘Gays and Fascism’ which began a ccial bate (see rponse GL 6). Our polil mments provid the spe for Gay Left s five years of existence, but as a group of gay men we were also firmly loted the velopg gay muny and culture, wh all their burgeong ncerns.