By Benjamin Shepard
From the delivery of the homosexual Liberation in the course of the upward thrust of the AIDS Coalition to unharness strength (ACT UP) in 1987, the worldwide justice circulate in 1994, the most important day of antiwar protest in global historical past in February 2003, the Republican nationwide conference protests in August 2004, and the big immigrant rights rallies within the spring of 2006, the streets of towns world wide were jam-packed with a brand new theatrical version of protest. components of enjoyable, creativity, excitement, and play are cornerstones of this new technique towards protest and group development. No circulation has had a bigger effect at the emergence of play in social circulation job than the homosexual liberation and queer activism of the prior thirty years. This ebook examines the function of play in homosexual liberation and queer activism, and the ways that queer notions of play have stimulated a wide diversity of social routine.
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1995; Fine 1995; Jasper 1997; Goodwin, Jasper, and Polletta 2001; Polletta 2006). Still, the concept is not generally viewed as a part of thinking about social movements. Space precludes a full discussion of play in relation to this theoretical literature, but a few themes bear consideration. Shifts in social attitude take place in countless social venues (Kahn 1995; Duncombe 2002, 2004; Chang 2005). Thus, it is not surprising that social movement theorists have begun to reconsider the realm of culture in relation to social change (Scott 1990; Darnovsky, Epstein, and Flacks 1995; Johnson and Klandermans 1995; Jasper 1997; Reed 2005).
Barbara Ehrenreich (2007) suggests that acts of collective joy have long been viewed as subversive. Advocates of free love, for example, have historically been met with acts of repression, especially when their aspirations set in motion shifts in social hierarchies (Andrews and Woodhull 1871; Evans 1988; M. Thompson [1987] 2005a; Ehrenreich 2007). Similar reactions Introduction 17 can be witnessed through history. For example, understandings of sexual freedom have historically been informed by medieval Christian mores that view any sexual act other than missionary position intercourse as a sin of irrational gratification.
In the years after his campaign, Sarria stayed involved, organizing to fight the ongoing harassment taking place at gay venues throughout the city (Boyd 2003). I asked Sarria how he went about organizing the Tavern Guild. We organized with the bar owners at that time, to catch the bad check artists and to inform the various bars when the vice squad was coming in. We had our own little telephone system. ’ And the next place would say are you an offi cer? Are you the vice squad? So they would give up because they would be found out.