In part because AIDS has had a stigmatizing association with male homosexuality, female celebrities have been especially prominent in support of AIDS-related causes. Clockwise from top are actresses Susan Sarandon, reading names from the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington D.C., in 1988; Whoopi Goldberg at the lesbian and gay March on Washington in 1987; and Elizabeth Taylor meeting members of the National Association

1998 ◽  
pp. 154-154
Keyword(s):  
National Association ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Aids Memorial Quilt ◽  
March On Washington ◽  
Whoopi Goldberg

‘Our Nameless Desires’

2020 ◽  
pp. 566-584
Author(s):  
Michael G. Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gay Movement ◽  
Gay Identities

The chapter surveys the development of Irish lesbian and gay fiction since the early 1990s. It traces the emergence of a generation of gay-identified authors who, buoyed by the gains made by the lesbian and gay movement since the 1970s, which culminated in the decriminalization of male homosexuality in the Republic in 1993, sought to give literary expression to the diversity of lesbian and gay identities in contemporary Ireland. The analysis distinguishes between two significant compositional principles in this body of fiction—plots that are structured temporally and those that are structured spatially—and examines their treatment in novels by Mary Dorcey, Emma Donoghue, Tom Lennon, Colm Tóibín, Micheál Ó Conghaile, Keith Ridgway, Barry McCrea, and others.

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