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Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

English

By (author): Gregory Woods

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks

An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . . collectively confirm the books central thesis: gay culture, or at least gays and lesbians, did indeed liberate the modern world.Booklist

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity.
 
Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called the Homintern (an echo of Lenins Comintern) by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture.
 
Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 508g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300228748

About Gregory Woods

Gregory Woods was appointed to Britains first chair in Gay and Lesbian Studies by Nottingham Trent University in 1998. He lives in Nottingham UK.

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