Battles over the gay past: de-generation and the queerness of memory -- For time immemorial: marking time in the built environment -- The revolution might be televised: the mass mediation of gay memories -- Queer theory is burning: sexual revolution and traumatic unremembering -- Remembering a new queer politics: ideals in the aftermath of identity
Summary
"The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS. Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture"--Provided by publisher
