Angel Martinez’s Reviews > American Homo: Community and Perversity > Status Update

"Gramsci that in Europe's & North America's highly developed civil and market societies, an oppositional political movement must wage ... a war of position (ex, by building communities) & a war of maneuver (direct action + political alliances). ... the movement can resist hegemonic institutions & ideologies, (heterosexual, male-centered, and reproductivist cultural norms) & institutions that stigmatize homosexuality.

interesting lil discourse on the relationship between 'community' and 'academic' intellectuals

"Although collective action hinges on shared knowledge and beliefs, social and political movements often inspire the creation of knowledge" (144).

And organization. Collective action also hinges on organization

"During the late 1940s and 1950s at least, the homosexual closet was constructed by the dialectic between the management of information and the threat of violence posed by visibility." (pg 68)

"The political mobilization of the New Right can only succeed in defending a particular sex / gender subculture. It cannot restore the heterosexual and paternalistic family form to its earlier position of unchallenged dominance."

Speaking of the New Right's rise in the 1970s

"Historical and anthropological research has shown that homosexual persons (i.e., people who occupy a social position or role as homosexuals) do not exist in many societies, whereas homosexual behavior occurs in virtually every society." (pg 37)

Difference in behavior vs identity