Revolution is for us: The Left and Gay Liberation in Australia

‘The homosexual is essential to the sexual revolution; there can be no revolution, no liberation, without us.’ Australia’s Gay Liberation movement arose at a time when revolution was in the air and gays wanted to be part of it. It was the Left which had a theory and practice of revolution – Marxism. But it is often asserted that the Left was backward and even hostile, that Marxism had no tradition of dealing with sexual oppression. This book challenges those claims and shows that the Left –...