Essays challenging the increasing denial of the AIDS crisis and the rise of conservative gay politics. In Melancholia and Moralism, Douglas Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early...
This text confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s. It shows that the losses from AIDS, including the waning of militant responses, have resulted in melancholia as Freud defined it.