...This introduction reframes 1970s movements for women’s and gay liberation as archives of feminist and queer imagination. This imagination was displayed in 1970s gay cultural politics, a broad terrain of artistic production that sought to capture and formally elaborate gender and sexual...

... Hall Justin queer studies queer Summers A K sequential art David Wojnarowicz Joe Brainard gay liberation AIDS queer sexuality 7 Miles a Second graphic memoir comic strips gay liberation A visual spectacle: we see a full-color, six-panel panorama in what appears to be a graphic narrative...

... of life in this world in favor of the life after death. In contrasts, humanism embraces the value of life by embracing gay liberation. This acceptance is a fundamental affirmation of the goodness of human life and a rejection of the claim that the basic human impetus to love, and to express that love...

... that the serialized rhythm of the narrative—which followed the social and sexual misadventures of a cadre of queer friends in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood—modeled gay liberation’s conception of coming out about one’s sexuality as a process that unfolds over time through repeated encounters with new erotic...

...In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women’s and gay liberation—including consciousness-raising, lesbian separatism, and coming out of the closet—were translated into a range of US popular culture forms. Throughout this period, feminist...