Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895 - 1917

Fully indexed work on anarchism as it intersected with sexual politics at a time when homosexuality was considered to be ‘gross indecency’ and when Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years in a spectacular show trial. Emma Goldman, among other anarchists, was a staunch defender of the right to sexual freedom, speaking and writing on what they saw as an oppressive misuse of state power. Includes writings from the earliest days of sexual politics through to the transforming events of Stonewall.