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Radical Homosexual Politics Today: a Legacy of the Seventies RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL POLITICS TODAY: A Legacy of the Seventies Craig Johnston In 1969 a Homosexual Law Reform Group usefulness of the concepts developed within was set up in Canberra. In 1970 an the movement, as a contribution towards the Australian chapter of the US lesbian continuance into the 1980s of the (arrested organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, was and unfinished) project of ‘sexual set up in Melbourne as the Australasian revolution’. Lesbian Movement; later that year, two homosexuals in Sydney came out and T h e Social Construction of the publicly launched the Campaign Against Homosexual Moral Persecution. Thus the homosexual rights movement was launched in Australia. Homosexuality refers to a behaviour These first steps were very tentative: the pattern, the enactment jof sexual intercourse ACT law reform group was not specifically a with a member of one’s own biological sex. homosexual group, the Australasian This is natural in the sense that all humans Lesbian Movement had a heterosexual have a homosexual and heterosexual spokesperson, CAMP admitted potential at birth, that is, we are born with a heterosexuals to membership. But they non-formed sexuality. But it is not ‘normal’ initiated the process of the development of a in the sense that all societies (perhaps with movement of homosexual for homosexuals, rare and debatable exceptions) have up till which exists in a stronger form today, in now socialized their children into a numbers and diversity. This movement has heterosexual norm because of the historic, also had some sort of impact on Australian animal-derived equation between sexuality society generally — in terms of contributing and procreation linked with the need to to the mellowing of attitudes towards perpetuate the species. However, homosexuality in some circles and, at the homosexuality can be found in most formal level, of majority public support for societies.(l) equality before the law, and in terms of a It can take different forms, depending on new, more positive, self-identity among the social relations of production dominant many homosexuals themselves. in a particular social formation, but the This article looks at aspects of the new ‘gay immediate placing of homosexuality in the consciousness’ as it evolved throughout the totality of social relations appears to be 1970s and attempts an assessment of the related to ideological and political relations. RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL POLITICS 19 primarily the ideological. In particular, there behaviour. Prior to the rise of capitalism, in has been some early connection between Europe homosexuality was institutionalized homosexuality, the vocations of priests and only in certain closed communities, healers, tendencies towards magic, and nunneries and monasteries, knightly orders, initiation ceremonies for women andmen.(2) royal courts.<5) But as early as the mid-1500s, That is, there seems to be a definite male homosexual beats existed in Paris(6), relationship between the form it takes and and male homosexual brothels existed in France and England early in the eighteenth religious ideology in particular. century. But then urbanization was not With this in mind, the concept of a sufficient. Industrialization accelerated the homosexual can be introduced. A process of urbanization and caused havoc to homosexual, as distinct from someone who traditional kinship structures releasing commits a homosexual act, is someone homosexuals from many of the social bonds whose mental structures have aB a common of less complex societies. This enabled the feature the choice of a sex-object of one’s own transition of the homosexual as subordinate, biological sex; this relation could exist in the unconscious, in fantasy or in the act. (3) As deviant and individual to homosexuals as Freud put it: subordinate, deviant and mass. Following Weeks, we can discern three What decides whether we describe aspects of the development of the someone as an invert is not his actual homosexual under capitalism. behaviour, but his emotional attitude.(4) A distinctly homosexual role, For this to be the case, there must be conceptualizing homosexuality as a something in the social formation to enable condition which characterizes certain the transition from homosexuality as individuals and not others, was a relatively activity to homosexuality as a social role. It late development, being fairly generally is here that the link begins with the situation recognized in Britain by the late nineteenth o f women. Whether consistent century. (8) There is some evidence that a homosexuality {among men, that among male homosexual role emerged from the late women having less chance of social seventeenth century — associated with an tolerance on an historic, world scale) is embryonic sub-culture, a particular mode of tolerated or not is related to the particular behaviour (often transvestite) and slang. But mechanisms for social control of women in the critical formative period was the late each society (male-bonding as socialization nineteenth century; the term in the case of the pederasty of the Ancient ‘homosexuality’ itself was not coined till Greeks, quasi-women in the case of the 1869 and entered into English currency only Amerindian berdaches). in the 1890s.(9) The increasingly complex With the development of capitalism, this male homosexual sub-culture in cities like emergence of the distinctiveness of the London and Dublin was paralleled by homosexual took a higher form. While some developments in cities like Berlin. Although content of the oppression of homosexuals is lesbian organisations are reported to not specific to capitalism (especially related have existed in France in the late eighteenth to patriarchal and Christian ideologies), the century, lesbian sub-cultures did not form it takes is quite specific and is bound up generally emerge till the turn of the twentieth with capitalism’s past, present and future century, in Paris and Berlin.(lO) development. A medical m odel of homosexuality The phenomenon of the homosexual with a emerged at the same time, though its roots distinctive identity and sub-culture were earlier. This idea of homosexuality as a integrated into the mainstream of the society ‘disease’ both supplanted and supplemented and subsidiary to the dominant culture was the earlier notion of it as a ‘sin’(ll), made possible historically by urbanization, according with the bourgeoisie’s rational which drew large numbers of people and ‘scientific’ ideologies more than the together, decreasing the isolation and sense feudal-religious conception. of deviance evident in pre-class societies. There was a development of homosexual Urbanization enabled new patterns of self-im age and identity. Fitting in with family life, sex roles, courting and sexual the demands of British capital in the 1880s as 20 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW No. 74 it confronted its twin threats, imperialist complex interactions between the concepts of rivals and the working class, the family was homosexual as one who is sexually and elevated as a buttress to social stability, emotionally attracted to her own biological corresponding to the class needs of both the sex and one whose identity is a deviant. This bourgeoisie and the labor aristocracy.(12) is manifest in the confusion in attitudes to The anti-male homosexual Labouchere homosexuals and is fired by repressed latent amendment to the British Criminal Law homosexuality among heterosexuals. Amendment Act was made in 1895. In this social climate, the commitment necessary to H om ophobia has been used to describe homosexuality was much more demanding; fear of and hostility to homosexuality and conversely, male homosexual consciousness homosexuals, like all ideologies operating in was more sharply defined in the wake of an unconscious as well as a conscious way. possible 'exposure and blackmail.(13) The As a concept to explain homosexual self-identity of most homosexuals was oppression its value is limited because it is composed of a sense of ‘differentness’ caused based on the primacy of the homo/hetero by social isolation and persecution and distinction, i.e. that distinction is seen as reinforced by internalization of the religious central to the problem of homosexual and pseudo-scientific ideologies of guilt and oppression. The political solution then sickness. As an expression of this new becomes the liberal one of ‘education’. identity, organizations for homosexual The hegemony of heterosexual gender role rights were established; in England, the stereotypes maintained and reproduced in Order of Chaeronea in the 1890s; in the USA, the ideological apparatuses has been called the Cercle Hermaphroditus in 1895; and the heterosexism . According to whether one is most important, the Scientific female or male one is expected to have Humanitarian Committee in Germany in ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ attributes, i.e. 1897. gender roles corresponding to biological sex. While homosexual identity and This is, of course, ideological mystification of subculture developed, the attitude of the a male supremacy based on the sexual state — feudal, absolutist and capitalist — division of labor. was overwhelmingly hostile. The Napoleonic Code of 1810 made consenting Heterosexism operates against homosexual acts legal but homosexuals in homosexuals because by not conforming to countries covered by the code were not the ‘normal’ processes of sexual object- exempt from state persecution and choice, lesbians and male homosexuals are harassment. Nevertheless, the revolutionary assumed
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