"No Revolution Without Us": Queer Radicals and the Socialist Left in the US, 1968-1976
Benjamin Serby
13 April 2026 | 6:00 PM Gulf Standard Time (3:00 PM CET) | Zoom (Webinar)
This talk, drawn from a portion of one chapter of my book manuscript-in-progress, will discuss the role of queer radicals in the socialist left in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s, a period when there was considerable overlap between the New Left and gay liberation. How did different socialist tendencies and parties respond to the emergence of mass queer activism after Stonewall? How did queer radicals adapt Marxist theory to explain their oppression and struggle? What role did the socialist left play in the broader LGBT movement at this formative moment in its history?
This talk will explore all of these questions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Benjamin Serby is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Adelphi University, where he teaches the interdisciplinary humanities and history. He received his PhD in US History from Columbia University in 2020.
His current book manuscript, Eros in Revolt: Gay Liberation, the New Left, and Cultural Radicalism in the Long Sixties, is in contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press.