Book and Discussion: Feeling Backward- Loss and the Politics of Queer History October 28, 2008

In this contemporary book Penn Professor Heather Love weighs the costs of the move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses that have been both hard to identify and mourn.

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