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Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Michel Foucault
In my opinion, as important as it may be, tactically speaking, to say at a given moment, ‘I am a homosexual,’ over the long run, in a wider strategy, the question of knowing who we are sexually should no longer … Continue reading
Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Mario Mieli
To come over to our side means, quite literally, to be fucked in the ass, and to discover that this is one of the most beautiful of pleasures. It means to marry your pleasure to mine without castrating chains, without … Continue reading
Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed by Louis Valentin (1970) A 1970 interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini, on the youth revolt of the sixties, culture, love, his film “Oedipus Rex”, the heterosexual couple, homosexuality, and more. LV: You have often been accused … Continue reading
Reflections after the Stonewall Riots: Guy Hocquenghem
To speak of reflections after Stonewall is not to suggest any logical chronology in which thought follows practice. But the Stonewall Riots do express a moment of intensity in the practice and thought of the radical gay rebellion of the … Continue reading
In praise of riots: From Stonewall to Minneapolis
Published with CrimethInc. Collective (28/06/2020) … Stonewall Means Riot Right Now: What the Queer Uprisings of 1969 Share with the George Floyd Protests of 2020 “Stonewall was a riot.” In the 51 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-racism, insurrection, LGBT, LGBTQ+, LGBTQI
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The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50
From the Working Class History collective, two excellent podcast episodes on the Stonewall riots and radical gay politics of the time and today. A further contribution to radicalising pride.
Breaking through the domestication of the Stonewall Riots
‘Q’ then, will never be a coherent letter tacked as a bridge on some list of identities. The past decade shows the poverty or ruin of every attempt to do so. We’ve said already that these words are magic. We … Continue reading
Stonewall: Re-Politicising Pride
THE ANAL MACHINE (Apocryphal poem by Paul B. Preciado) In front of the heterosexual machine It rises, fierce, the ANAL MACHINE The non-hierarchical connection of the organs The redistribution of pleasure And anal collectivisation Announce a SEXUAL COMMUNISM That is … Continue reading
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Tagged Judith Butler, LGBTQI, Maurice Blanchot, Paul B. Preciado
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In praise of a riot: Resonances of the Stonewall Inn insurrection
(Paula Rego, Angel) In memory of the Stonewall Inn insurrection of 1969, in memory of all of those women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans and intersex, queers and men who have been admonished, disciplined, tortured and killed for “deviant” forms of pleasure … Continue reading
Remembering the Stonewall riots of 1969
… if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all … Continue reading →