Modern Homosexualities - Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experiences (Hardcover, New)

Homosexuality is not what it used to be. When the modern lesbian and gay movements erupted on the world-wide cultural and political stage during the early 1970s few could have seen the enormous ramifications. For although homosexuality still has its critics and its enemies, the modern lesbian and gay community has proliferated into distinctive ways of living together, of relating sexually, of responding to AIDS, of establishing identities and communities, of being political. "Modern Homosexualities" documents some of this rich and developing experience. It presents "fragments" of an experience that has become remarkably diverse. In 19 original essays from activists and social scientists in eight countries, this diversity is charted. It is a collection which draws together essays on a wide range of experience. A major section examines the development and recognition of new patterns of "families of choice" such as the Danish experiment on "Registered Partnerships", the Australian immigration definition of lesbian and gay couples, the debate over lesbian motherhood, and the issue of "mixed marriages" where one partner is gay.