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• LGBT+ (Theory)

  Desiring human touch — #MeToo and Queer Experience

  3 May 2020, by DRUCKER Peter

  Author’s note: This article was years in the making. The time I spent wrestling with these issues now feels like a distant past. But still, in the midst of this pandemic, the importance of mutually desiring human touch - especially queer human touch - seems at least as great to me as ever. (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  Review: That Oldtime Queer Utopia – On Mario Mieli’s “Towards a Gay Communism”

  1 July 2019, by DRUCKER Peter

  Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique By Mario Mieli, translated by David Fernbach and Evan Calder Williams London: Pluto Press, 2018, 260 pages plus index, $30 paperback from University of Chicago Press.
  THE PAST DECADE’S mini-boomlet in queer Marxist publishing has sent (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  That Oldtime Queer Utopia

  1 July 2019, by DRUCKER Peter

  THE PAST DECADE’S mini-boomlet in queer Marxist publishing has sent some people in search of queer Marxist ancestors. This may be what prompted Pluto Press to put out a new edition of Mario Mieli’s book Towards a Gay Communism, first published in Italian in 1977 and in English (as Homosexuality (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  Review: “Towards a Gay Communism”

  15 December 2018, by WILSON Colin

  A review of the new English republication of “Towards a Gay Communism” (1977) by the Italian gay liberation activist and writer Mario Mieli. Mario Mieli’s book, written in the late 70s, reveals a world lost to us now – the radicalisation of the late 60s and early 70s, which provided the context for (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  It’s Important For Sport to Be More LGBTQIA+ Friendly

  29 September 2018, by Kruthika N.S.

  The effort towards representation and equality will take time and resources, but it comes down to what we prioritise as a society, and how we want that to reflect in our sport.
  If sport can be termed a microcosm of society, it is hardly surprising that even today, a cisgender heterosexual man (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  How Britain’s colonial legacy still affects LGBT politics around the world

  15 May 2018, by HAN Enze, O’MAHONEY Joseph

  At the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, the British prime minister, Theresa May, urged Commonwealth nations to reform existing anti-gay legislation held over from British colonial rule. And while stopping short of a formal apology, she used her speech to explicitly (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  Queer Marxism: a reading guide

  27 April 2018, by DRUCKER Peter

  Queer Marxism has been founding a body of theory synthesizing Marxist concepts like class, reification and totality with concepts from other paradigms like performativity, homonationalism and intersectionality.
  The roots of queer Marxism go back to the first interactions between socialist (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  O’Brien on Drucker, ’Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism’

  1 August 2017, by DRUCKER Peter, O’BRIEN Michelle

  Peter Drucker. Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015. 446 pp. $36.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-60846-636-8.
  Reviewed by Michelle E. O’Brien (New York University, Department of Sociology) Published on H-Socialisms (August, 2017) Commissioned by Gary Roth (...)

• LGBT+ (Theory)

  Different Rainbows, Third World Queer Liberation

  1 February 2002, by KINSMAN Gary

  Different Rainbows, edited by Peter Drucker. Gay Men’s Press: London, 2000. 222 pages, U.S. $19.95 (paperback).
  THIS COLLECTION IS the first of its kind on the emergence of “queer” movements in all their diversities in the “third world.”
  For far too long, writing and theorizing about the (...)