From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual

Robert Reynolds

ISBN 10: 0522850227 / ISBN 13: 9780522850222

Published by Melbourne University Press, 2002

About this Item

Book was exposed to limited moisture, with a small, faint dampstain on the top outer edge and top fore edge, and a larger dampstain and spotting at top of half-title page; volume has light wear; tight, text clean. viii, 199 p. [br 21].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522850227
• ISBN 13: 9780522850222
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

In the 1960s and 1970s many Australians began thinking about some radical questions. Who are we as homosexuals? Who might we become? How are we to act politically? In short, how are we to live?

In lively prose Robert Reynolds looks at how these men and women undertook what is now a universal task: the reinvention of the self in an era of uncertainty and change, where old answers no longer suffice, and where sexuality is a core preoccupation. This agile account avoids simple, romantic or stereotyped views of the gay and lesbian movements to reveal a complex but largely forgotten history and legacy.

Reynolds delves into personal stories, moving adroitly from the camp bars of the 1960s to the openly proud homosexuals who have created a politics of homosexuality in Australia. He presents a highly readable yet complex history in which there are no simple dualities.

From camp to gay to the recent movement of queer, from modern to postmodern and a transgressive use of psychoanalysis, From Camp to Queer is a sophisticated yet highly accessible story.

About the Author

Robert Reynolds is a Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of What Happened to Gay Life (2007) and co-author with Shirleene Robinson of Gay and Lesbian, Then and Now: Australian Stories from a Social Revolution (2016).