is a historian of radical movements and LGBTQ history in the postwar United States. She serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and as incoming co-chair of the Committee on LGBT History. Hobson is the author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left (University of California Press, 2016), and is developing a new book on activism to confront HIV/AIDS in prisons in the 1980s and 1990s United States.
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.
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