ABSTRACT
Social movements carry layered meanings in the history of sexuality. Certainly, many movements have centered expressly on sexual identities and politics, whether by pursuing sexual freedom, safety, or constraint. But beyond this, all movements are spaces in which sexual politics, identities, and communities are lived out and can be contested. Sexual bonds help to connect activists together, and movements foster both normative and transgressive intimacies. Especially at times of intense popular mobilization, movements converge and influence each other, propelling activists to move between causes. Through such movement across difference, activists build personal, material, and ideological relationships, interacting with one another through both solidarities and debates. Indeed, as Kevin Mumford shows regarding Black gay history, conflicts between movements have often catalyzed intersectional analyses and practices.1
