Product Description: Available in paperback for the first time, his book demonstrates how the personal became political in post-war Britain, and argues that attention to gay activism can help us to fundamentally rethink the nature of post-war politics...read more

Product Description: This stimulating book investigates the intention, meaning and impact of existing concepts of justice regarding the legal status of lesbians and gay men. Contributors attempt to assess whether current ideas of justice are, or can be, relevant to lesbian and gay campaigns against discrimination...read more

Product Description: Does the idea of equality for sexual minorities have as strong an influence as the media suggest? How often do politicians come out forthrightly in support of gay rights? Drawing on more than three hundred interviews with activists, politicians, officials, legislative aides, and journalists, David Rayside shows that gays, lesbians, and their political issues are still on the fringe of the political mainstream...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Investigates the intention, meaning and impact of existing concepts of justice regarding the legal status of lesbians and gay men. This work considers contemporary lobby efforts in different countries and assesses whether current ideas of justice are relevant to campaigns against discrimination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss British discrimination against homosexuals in the schools, at work, in the courts, prisons, church, professions, and media