Abstract

How might historical queer and trans activist tactics and visions of the future be used to invigorate contemporary LGBTQ+ politics and thought? This article provides an introduction to the ‘Imagining Queer Europe Then and Now’ special issue of Third Text, an issue which emerges from the final conference of the pan-European queer history project ‘Cruising the Seventies’. We identify the uneven and complex ways in which LGBTQ+ activism, networks, erotic connections, and forms of cultural expression manifested across Europe in the 1970s, and the ways in which these intersected with anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-fascist and feminist struggles in the same era. We argue for the excavation of the unrealised possibilities of queer pasts and futures, proposing that forms of social and erotic interaction, and aesthetic and cultural intervention, can provide fresh perspectives on the queer past and the politics of its recovery.

摘要

历史古怪和反激进主义的策略和对未来的看法如何被用于振兴当代LGBTQ +政治和思想？本文介绍了“想象中的欧洲过去和现在”第三期专刊。，这是泛欧洲酷儿历史项目“游荡七十年代”的最后一次会议提出的问题。我们确定了1970年代在整个欧洲展现LGBTQ +行动主义，网络，色情联系和文化表现形式的不平衡且复杂的方式，以及这些方式与反种族主义，反殖民地，反法西斯主义和女权主义者相交的方式在同一时代奋斗。我们主张挖掘古怪的过去和未来的未实现可能性，并提出社会和色情互动的形式以及审美和文化干预可以为古怪的过去及其复兴的政治提供新的观点。