Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. Christopher Reed is associate professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University.

• ContentsIntroduction: In the Interest of Time1. Battles over the Gay Past: De-generation and the Queerness of Memory2. For Time Immemorial: Marking Time in the Built Environment3. The Revolution Might Be Televised: The Mass Mediation of Gay Memories4. Queer Theory Is Burning: Sexual Revolution and Traumatic Unremembering5. Remembering a New Queer Politics: Ideals in the Aftermath of IdentityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry-that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity-toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present." -Jonathan Katz"If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory." -Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds

Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. Christopher Reed is associate professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University.

• ContentsIntroduction: In the Interest of Time1. Battles over the Gay Past: De-generation and the Queerness of Memory2. For Time Immemorial: Marking Time in the Built Environment3. The Revolution Might Be Televised: The Mass Mediation of Gay Memories4. Queer Theory Is Burning: Sexual Revolution and Traumatic Unremembering5. Remembering a New Queer Politics: Ideals in the Aftermath of IdentityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry-that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity-toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present." -Jonathan Katz"If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory." -Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds

Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. Christopher Reed is associate professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University.

• ContentsIntroduction: In the Interest of Time1. Battles over the Gay Past: De-generation and the Queerness of Memory2. For Time Immemorial: Marking Time in the Built Environment3. The Revolution Might Be Televised: The Mass Mediation of Gay Memories4. Queer Theory Is Burning: Sexual Revolution and Traumatic Unremembering5. Remembering a New Queer Politics: Ideals in the Aftermath of IdentityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry-that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity-toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present." -Jonathan Katz"If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory." -Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds