Thesis: in a way, the radfaes were kind of a petit-bourgeois takeover of the radical faggot movement.
Bodies of Evidence:
- Faggots and the Class Struggle, May 1976
https://itwascuriosity.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/a-conference-report-faggots-and-class-struggle-1976/
2. Pasolini on 1968
http://somerandomguyoranother.blogspot.com/2010/03/unhappy-youth-i-giovanni-infelici-by.html
3. patronage system
[will require oral histories and is a least likely branch of evidence to be documented]
4. Harry Hay and Mattachine
explain: CPUSA origin, and cell structure, earlier 50s. lavender scare and business-faction takeover of org in late 50s/early 60s. hay’s embittered walk in the wilderness, til the late 60s changed the paradigm to counterculture. idpol and the emergence of GLF &c.
Carl Wittman and SDS. “A Gay Manifesto”:
http://library.gayhomeland.org/0006/EN/A_Gay_Manifesto.htm
Golden, Cabbage Lane/Lilac Ridge, Creekland/Magdalen Farm.
Chenille Crow and Assunta. Magdalen Farm and RFD. Nomenus saves the farm when Chenille is dying.
Oskrr as the face of new relations, late ’80s.
5. The Gayseoisie and the Class Struggle
- ACTUP/Queer Nation and Homocore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homocore_(zine)
- End-Up: Class “vs” Identity
https://iww.org/culture/articles/tsunami/tsunami5.shtml
- Gay Shame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Shame
- The HRC: The Human Rights Campaign and Hillary Rodham Clinton
…and here’s some more tangential ideas:
6. Seattle and the re-emergence of class consciousness on the American left
7. the rise of youth Socialism in the USA
- Obama as “Socialist”in ’08 election
- Sanders/Clinton
7. The Radical Faeries Today
