{"id":192479,"date":"2021-06-05T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobinmag.com\/2021\/06\/aaron-lecklider-love-next-meeting-review\/"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T09:00:43","slug":"despite-everything-queer-leftists-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/05\/despite-everything-queer-leftists-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Everything, Queer Leftists Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"
Back in October, a mini-viral tweet asked writers, \u201cGive the worst possible elevator pitch for your book.\u201d Aaron S. Lecklider, a professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, replied, \u201cQueer people actually were national security risks.\u201d The jokey tweet alludes to a violent history: that of the \u201cLavender Scare,\u201d the mid-century moral […]<\/p>\n\n