Fear of a Queer Planet by Michael Warner

In recent years lesbians and gay men have developed a new, aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of study.

The contributors to Fear of a Queer Planet draw on emerging new queer politics to demonstrate how queer activists have come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political world. Queer sexualities, say the authors, assume many forms, are the subject of many kinds of conflict and struggles, and must be taken as a starting point in thinking about cultural politics.

The diverse and balanced collection explores the impact of ACT UP, Queer Nation, multiculturalism, the new religious right, outing, queerness, postmodernism, and other shifts in the politics of sexuality. Speaking from different backgrounds of gender, race, nationality, and discipline, the contributors reveal how struggles over sexuality have profound implications for progressive politics, social theory, and cultural studies.