Beyond the politics of the closet : gay rights and the American state since the 1970s / edited by Jonathan Bell.

Gay rights and the American state since the 1970s

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

vi, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Privilege, power, and activism in gay rights politics since the 1970s / Jonathan Bell -- A clinic comes out : idealism, pragmatism, and gay health services in Boston, 1971-1985 / Catherine Batza -- "A ray of sunshine" : housing, family, and gay political power in 1970s Los Angeles / Ian M. Baldwin -- Making sexual citizens : LGBT politics, health care, and the state in the 1970s / Jonathan Bell -- AIDS and the urban crisis : stigma, cost, and the persistence of racism in Chicago, 1981-1996 / Timothy Stewart-Winter -- "Don't we die too?" : the politics of AIDS and race in Philadelphia / Dan Royles -- Black gay lives matter : mobilizing sexual identities in the eras of Reagan and Thatcher conservativism / Kevin Mumford -- Gay and conservative : an early history of the Log Cabin Republicans / Clayton Howard -- "No discrimination & no special rights" : gay rights, family values, and the politics of moderation in the 1992 election / Rachel Guberman -- Homophobia baiting : queering the Trayvon Martin archives and challenging the antiblackness of color-blind politics / Julio Capó Jr.