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If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry--that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity--toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present. --Jonathan Katz

If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory. -Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry-that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity-toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present. -Jonathan Katz

If Memory Serves is a brilliant and powerful argument for memory as an activist act, a refusal to live in the present as is, and a vital tool for reinvigorating queer theory. Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds

<p> If Memory Serves is a carefully argued case for the deep, albeit repressed, kinship between the rise of queer theory and the horrors of AIDS. This is a book that boldly seeks to prod sleeping collective memories of old school faggotry--that pre-AIDS sensibility which harnessed promiscuous sex to an unabashed declaration of queer identity--toward a new historical narrative that refuses to enlist our past only to reinforce the claims of our present. --Jonathan Katz

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Christopher Castiglia is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. Christopher Reed is associate professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University.

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