{"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

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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 secu…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192480,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192479\/revisions\/192480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}