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Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture Hardcover – June 15, 2021
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How queerness and radical politics intersected—earlier than you thought.
Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns. Sensitive already to sexual marginalization, they also saw how class inequality was exacerbated by the Great Depression, witnessing the terrible bread lines and bread riots of the era. They participated in radical labor organizing, sympathized like many with the early prewar Soviet Union, contributed to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, opposed US police and state harassment, fought racial discrimination, and aligned themselves with the dispossessed. Whether they were themselves straight, gay, or otherwise queer, they brought sexual dissidence and radicalism into conversation at the height of the Left's influence on American culture.
Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love’s Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron S. Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love's Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.
- Print length376 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateJune 15, 2021
- Dimensions6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100520381424
- ISBN-13978-0520381421
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"Nothing less than revelatory. . . . As Lecklider shows, through a combination of meticulous archival research and astute, often surprising analysis, in the decades before Stonewall, homosexual and gender nonconforming men and women were fighting for liberation through involvement with the Left. . . . They took part in radical labor organizing, joined the fight against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War, opposed racism, sexism, and state and police repression. They were intersectional avant la lettre." ― PopMatters
“Rather than treat political radicalism and dissident sexuality as discrete phenomena, Lecklider convincingly demonstrates how sexual “deviance” and anti-capitalist views coevolved alongside racial and immigrant justice and women’s liberation in the context of the US's diversifying urban centers. . . . Students of sexuality, American radicalism, and urban history will learn much from Love’s Next Meeting.” ― CHOICE
“Lecklider traces a usable past for queer-Left politics that is saturated with humor and memorable detail. . . . Love’s Next Meeting makes a major contribution to histories of sexuality, queer politics, the Left, and American culture. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and passionately written." ― Journal of the History of Sexuality
"Pithy and provocative, Love’s Next Meeting is the culmination of Lecklider’s years long deep dive into the question of why sexual dissidents were attracted to the Old Left even though the Left officially rejected them." ― Against the Current: A Socialist Journal
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"A major work of US cultural history that revises our understanding of the relations between homosexuality and radical politics in the era of Popular Front social movements, the so-called Old Left of the 1930s Depression, the 1940s antifascist war, and the 1950s Cold War. A powerful narrative of the entangled lives of leftist sexual dissidents, Love's Next Meeting also offers an entirely original account of proletarian fiction as an archive of homosexuality and sexual dissidence." Michael Denning, author of The Cultural Front and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
"With prodigious archival sleuthing and literary and artistic analysis, Aaron Lecklider lifts the veil on the Left-queer nexus that decades of efforts&;led by some usual suspects and other surprising ones&;sought to cover up, misrepresent, and even erase. This powerful historical account gives us a seat at love's next meeting where we learn how artists, writers, poets, sex workers, hustlers, intellectuals, and many others came to view their sexual desires as a marker and extension of their politics." Julio Capó, Jr., author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940
"Love's Next Meeting is a provocative airing of the conflicted relationship of homosexuality and the American Left during the first half of the twentieth century. Whether queer Americans came from inherited wealth, shipped out as marine cooks and stewards, or lived as Black novelists, homeless hobos, or lesbians navigating their own liberation and advocacy for birth control and abortion, this book reveals that in every milieu of American life they invested some kind of hope that class- and race-based liberation politics could be extended to include them. While sexual dissidents opened the Left to the question of full sexual freedom, both independent and Soviet-affiliated US Left cultures struggled to meet queer people's desires. Aaron Lecklider offers readers a fuller understanding of how queer liberation and gay rights were connected to&;and excluded from&;radical social movements." Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
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"A major work of US cultural history that revises our understanding of the relations between homosexuality and radical politics in the era of Popular Front social movements, the so-called Old Left of the 1930s Depression, the 1940s antifascist war, and the 1950s Cold War. A powerful narrative of the entangled lives of leftist sexual dissidents, Love's Next Meeting also offers an entirely original account of proletarian fiction as an archive of homosexuality and sexual dissidence."—Michael Denning, author of The Cultural Front and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
"With prodigious archival sleuthing and literary and artistic analysis, Lecklider lifts the veil on the Left-queer nexus that decades of efforts—led by some usual suspects and other surprising ones—sought to cover up, misrepresent, and even erase. This powerful historical account gives us a seat at love's next meeting where we learn how artists, writers, poets, sex workers, hustlers, intellectuals, and many others came to view their sexual desires as a marker and extension of their politics."—Julio Capó Jr., author of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940
"Love's Next Meeting is a provocative airing of the conflicted relationship of homosexuality and the American Left during the first half of the twentieth century. Whether queer Americans came from inherited wealth, shipped out as marine cooks and stewards, or lived as Black novelists, homeless hobos, or lesbians navigating their own liberation and advocacy for birth control and abortion, this book reveals that in every milieu of American life they invested some kind of hope that class- and race-based liberation politics could be extended to include them. While sexual dissidents opened the Left to the question of full sexual freedom, both independent and Soviet-affiliated US Left cultures struggled to meet queer people's desires. Lecklider offers readers a fuller understanding of how queer liberation and gay rights were connected to—and excluded from—radical social movements."—Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993
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- Publisher : University of California Press; First Edition (June 15, 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 376 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520381424
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520381421
- Item Weight : 1.4 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #839,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #200 in Human Sexuality Studies
- #497 in Political Parties (Books)
- #767 in Censorship & Politics
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Aaron Lecklider is a cultural historian and professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His work focuses on the history of sexuality, class, race, and gender in the twentieth-century United States. His most recent book, Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture, explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in the US between 1920 and 1960. His first book, Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture, studied how working-class Americans, particularly women, African Americans, and immigrants, imagined themselves as intellectuals outside the walls of the ivory tower.
A cultural critic with an energetic voice, Lecklider also writes frequently about culture, politics, literature, film, and art for venues such as Slate, Salon, Huffington Post, Abusable Past, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and he curated an exhibit of recent work by the artist Avram Finkelstein at UMass Boston’s Harbor Gallery in 2013.
Aaron is based in Boston and Provincetown.
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