“Message Queens”: Aids Protest Literature, the Gay Community and Writing as a Political Act

The explosion of the AIDS epidemic in the early Eighties, and the subsequent position the gay community found itself in, brought the need for writers to become politically engaged. The protest against the institutions took different forms and activism was interpreted differently from different auth...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:895ace79a5d8485e80cd864acc2cf96c2021-11-23T14:21:25Z“Message Queens”: Aids Protest Literature, the Gay Community and Writing as a Political Act10.13135/2612-5641/28972612-5641https://doaj.org/article/895ace79a5d8485e80cd864acc2cf96c2019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/2897https://doaj.org/toc/2612-5641 The explosion of the AIDS epidemic in the early Eighties, and the subsequent position the gay community found itself in, brought the need for writers to become politically engaged. The protest against the institutions took different forms and activism was interpreted differently from different authors. Larry Kramer was very political and attacked both the government and the gay community, David Feinberg was aggressive but preferred humor as a weapon to protest, while Sarah Schulman chose a purer form of fiction and alongside the epidemic narrated the protests and the process of gentrification in the Village area. All these literary texts, and many more, have contributed to save and shape both gay culture and the gay community. Anna FerrariUniversità degli Studi di TorinoarticleAIDS Literature, Protest, Gay Literature, HumorAmericaE11-143American literaturePS1-3576ENITJAm It!, Iss 1 (2019)
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“Message Queens”: Aids Protest Literature, the Gay Community and Writing as a Political Act
description The explosion of the AIDS epidemic in the early Eighties, and the subsequent position the gay community found itself in, brought the need for writers to become politically engaged. The protest against the institutions took different forms and activism was interpreted differently from different authors. Larry Kramer was very political and attacked both the government and the gay community, David Feinberg was aggressive but preferred humor as a weapon to protest, while Sarah Schulman chose a purer form of fiction and alongside the epidemic narrated the protests and the process of gentrification in the Village area. All these literary texts, and many more, have contributed to save and shape both gay culture and the gay community.
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