“Where Is Your Rage?”: AIDS Generations

"Where Is Your Rage?": AIDS Generation

In a handful of recent cultural American texts of disparate genres, episodes of furious reaction on the part of gay men who have survived the AIDS crisis towards younger men who are seemingly oblivious to it, expose a wave of rage in cultural representations of the queer community. That these episodes point to an emotional rift between one generation of gay men towards another also suggests something less obvious and more taken for granted: that we now have generations of gay men. This book’s argument is therefore twofold: that there is an emergent rage in recent gay cultural texts and that AIDS produced generationality in white gay male culture.

Bio

Monica B. Pearl is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Twentieth Century American Literature and Film at the University of Manchester, UK. She has written extensively on AIDS representation, including her book AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss (Routledge). Her most recent publication is a short essay on the UK AIDS TV show It’s a Sin in The European Journal of Cultural Studies. A brief recent account of her experience as a member of ACT UP/New York was also published recently in Radical History Review.

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