Gay & Lesbian Politics

Mark Blasius, Associate Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, LaGuardia, is the co-author of We Are Everywhere: An Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Creation of Gay and Lesbian Politics A Historical Ontology of Politics * Power, Subjectivity, and Truth * Politics and Technologies of Government 2. A Politics of Sexuality Poser in Modernity: Biopower * Sexuality Becomes a Political Issue * Sexuality: A Technology of Government * The Lesbian and Gay Politics of Sexuality 3. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Political Identity A Genealogy of Gay and Lesbian Identity * Erotics: From Subjection to Agency * Silence = Death: Coming Out and the Creation of the Self * Conclusion: After Sexuality, Erotics? 4. What Are Lesbian and Gay Rights? Sexuality and Normativity: A Relational Right * AIDS and Biopower * Conclusion 5. An Ethos of Lesbian and Gay Existence Lesbian and Gay Existence: Sexual Orientation, Lifestyle, and Community * The Emergence of a Lesbian and Gay Ethos * Ethos, Knowledge, and Politics * Gay and Lesbian Politics and a New Ethic * Conclusion Index

"This important study is both an analysis of and a call to an involved politics. It opens the door to a far-reaching dialogue."—Martin Duberman, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The City University of New York