Aaron Lecklider

is a professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture (Penn Press, 2013) and Love's Next Meeting: Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press.

Transnational Solidarity on the Gay and Lesbian Left: An Interview With Emily Hobson

Emily K. Hobson and Aaron Lecklider February 1, 2018

What I focus on is how queer radicals didn’t just work to win acceptance, but actually changed the meanings of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle to incorporate sexual liberation – precisely because capitalism and colonialism depend on rigid sexual regulation.