SAME-SEX PASSION, POLITICS AND LITERATURE
- Module code: EN6114
- Credits: 10
- Semester: Year-Long
- Department: ENGLISH
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In the late twentieth-century LGBT people, first in Western societies but increasingly globally, mobilised to demand new political rights (the human right to dignity and freedom from discrimination; recognition of relationships and families). At certain historical moments during those decades this demand for recognition intersected with a much more powerful quest for sexual liberation – the radical transformation of all social relations and the creation of yet to be imagined erotic and emotional possibilities. This political project was inseparable from the creation of vibrant subcultures of solidarity, support and creative identity – often under terrible conditions, most notably the worst years of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s. |
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