With Friends Like These...: Marxism and Gay Politics

by Simon Edge

A critique of the Left's credibility on gay rights that exposes the intellectual and political inadequacies of the Left's understanding of the situation. It aims to clarify the options for the future of the gay rights movement beyond the discredited politics of the SWP, RCP or Labour Movement.

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Simon Edge read philosophy at Cambridge and had a long career as a newspaper journalist and critic. He is the author of five novels, mostly satirical comedies with a historical theme: The Hopkins Conundrum, a ‘tragic comedy’ based on the life of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins; The Hurtle of Hell, an atheist comedy featuring God as one of the main characters; A Right Royal Face-Off, about the rivalry between the painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, mixed with a satirical modern story; Anyone for Edmund?, a political satire about the discovery of England’s long-lost patron saint; and The End of the World is Flat, described by novelist Jane Harris as ‘Animal Farm for the era of gender lunacy, with jokes’. He lives in Suffolk.

Reviews

[Orla Nothin']

Really interesting

It is a little dated, and misses a lot of important milestones of recent years - both good and bad, but the content is still relevant

It opened my eyes, which, I suppose, a book should do