Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today. Bringing together archival research, oral histories, and vibrant images, Emily K. intervention in Central America, collaborated with their peers in Nicaragua, and mentored the first direct action against AIDS. In the Reagan years, they challenged U.S. Across the 1970s, its activists embraced socialist and women of color feminism and crafted queer opposition to militarism and the New Right. The gay and lesbian left found its center in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place where sexual self-determination and revolutionary internationalism converged. This politics was born in the late 1960s but survived well past Stonewall, propelling a gay and lesbian left that flourished through the end of the Cold War. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. Hobson rediscovers the radical queer past for a generation of activists today.LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements.

Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and racism. historians to relinquish a widely shared narrative of LGBT politics as a long fight to enter the mainstream.' American Historical Review.

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Hobson’s Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left challenges U.S.

Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson