Revolution is for us: The Left and Gay Liberation in Australia
By Liz Ross
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‘The homosexual is essential to the sexual revolution; there can be no revolution, no liberation, without us.’ Australia’s Gay Liberation movement arose at a time when revolution was in the air and gays wanted to be part of it. It was the Left which had a theory and practice of revolution – Marxism. But it is often assert
Liz Ross
Liz Ross has been active in Women's and Gay Liberation and socialist politics since the early 1970s. She is a founder member and now life member of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA). As a union delegate in the 1980s and 1990s she was involved in and has written extensively about workers struggles including 'Dedication doesn't pay the rent! The 1986 Victorian Nurses Strike' in Sandra Bloodworth and Tom O'Lincoln (eds) Rebel Women in Australian Working Class History and Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! Builders Labourers Fight Deregistration, 1981-94. Liz is also the author of Revolution is for us: the left and gay liberation in Australia, reprinted by Interventions in 2019.
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