We finally have a great Marxist classic critique on sexuality committed to LGBTIQ emancipation struggles
The victories of LGBT movements, especially the spread of same-sex marriage, have accelerated in recent years more than most people thought possible. However, the subsequent birth of a kind of "gay normality" has been disconcerting for activists with more radical approaches. A whole imaginary and a neoliberal gay market, "homonormative" and "homonationalist," that excludes those who fall outside the new norm, whether intersex, transgender, queer, non-binary, racialized people, and others.
The history of LGBT lives and struggles does not begin at New York's Stonewall in 1969. That is why Drucker takes a historical and geographical journey (not focused only on the Western world) through the different paradigms that in each context and phase of capitalist development have been hegemonic regarding sexual and affective relationships between people of the same sex and gender dissidences. In a fascinating confluence of economic, sociological, psychological, and sexological studies, and from an intersectional perspective (feminist, anti-racist, class, and queer), our author applies concepts and methodology from the best heterodox Marxism to understand the old and new challenges faced by people and movements that challenge sexual and gender norms. Neither the cultural question nor the conflictive and sometimes confusing relationship with environmentalism is left out, to finally address the final proposal: a politics of inclusion, based on Marxist theory and scientific contributions, that unites environmentalism, animal rights, and leftist politics in a common project.
