The Relationship Between Sexual Practices and Identity and the Social Form of Capitalist Rule

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The relationship between sexual practices and identity is at the heart of this book. In terms of homosexuality and capitalism, I think there's a set of arguments that were made by activists in early liberationist days about whether homosexuals could be considered a class. And another set of arguments emerge later in the first semi professional and then professional practice of gay history which have more to do with how male homosexuality emerged from capitalism.

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