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Transnationalism and Homophile Political Culture in the Postwar Decades
- GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
- Duke University Press
- Volume 15, Number 1, 2009
- pp. 31-65
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This article grows out of a larger project on homophile internationalism that linked Europe and North America organizations, activists and writing during the post-war decades. More than just participating in a North Atlantic exchange, these homophile activists had a global vision, one that sought to uncover, explore and archive same-sex intimacies worldwide. Utilizing travel writing, ethnographic studies and personal memoirs homophiles produced a popular anthropological account of homosexuality, one they implicitly linked to Cold War human rights discourse, liberal law reform, and normative social claims.