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1. 'The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community': Communal Living and Gay Liberation in the 1970s.

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Vider, Stephen

Subjects
*GAY men, *COMMUNAL living, *NINETEEN seventies, *GAY rights movement, *GAY men's identity, *HISTORY
Abstract

Though largely neglected in histories of gay male culture and politics in the 1970s, gay communes or living collectives were created and understood as a central strategy of gay liberation. Between 1970 and 1976, gay liberation groups formed male communes in major cities and rural areas across the United States. Gay men were hardly alone in their impulse to create communes. Nonetheless, among gay liberation activists, communal living took on unique meaning as a strategy for remaking forms and feelings of gay male belonging. This article draws on manifestos and memoirs from members of gay communes formed in the 1970s to examine the motivations that led gay men to join communes, the challenges they encountered and the debates around sexuality, gender and race their activities inspired. Though generally short-lived gay communes inspired both their members and observers to interrogate sexual and gender roles, and to rethink domestic space as a stage for social and political change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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2. "Oh Hell, May, Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?": Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity.

Author

Vider, Stephen

Subjects
*CAMP (Style), *LITERARY criticism, *LGBTQ+ literature, *GAY men's social life & customs, *GAY men, *GAY men's identity, *HISTORY
Abstract

The article discusses the relationship between camp humor and gay male domesticity during the 1950s and 1960s, with a particular focus on the book "The Gay Cookbook" by Lou Rand Hogan. It is suggested that during this period the home became a source of identity and community for gay men rather than a site of isolation. Details on heterosexual interest in camp culture are presented. The role of camp humor in the gay rights movement is also discussed.

Published
2013
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3. No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982

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Vider, Stephen Joshua and Cott, Nancy F.

Subjects
History, GLBT studies, domesticity, gay, home, masculinity, queer, sexuality
Abstract

No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982, explores the development of gay male domestic spaces and their representation in American culture, from the publication of the first Kinsey Report to the AIDS epidemic. Through archival research, and analysis of periodicals, books, and film, it shows that gay men frequently experienced their homes as key sites in the construction of sexual identities, relationships, and communities. Social scientists, journalists, and filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s typically depicted gay men as outsiders, if not threats, to the ideal heterosexual household, either anti-domestic (lonely figures who lurked city streets, bathrooms, and bars in search of a one-night stand), or hyper-domestic (prissy interior decorators whose work alienated "real" men from their homes). Such images, however, overlooked the actual range of social and political possibilities gay men found in the supposed privacy of apartments and houses. No Place Like Home uncovers these domestic performances in order to reconsider the evolution of gay culture and domesticity in the postwar period. Each chapter advances chronologically while tracing the lineage of five tropes of gay male home-making: (1) the interior decorator; (2) homosexual marriage; (3) camp humor and cooking; (4) communes; and (5) vacation homes. In practice and representation, domesticity provided a stage for gay men and their observers to negotiate social anxieties around masculinity and sexuality, and debate conventional conceptions of home and family.

Published
2013

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