Feeling backward : loss and the politics of queer history
"Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings dear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses - losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet."
Print Book, English, 2007
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007