Simon Watney

Simon Watney (born 1949) is a British writer, art historian, and AIDS activist.

He studied art history at the University of Sussex, and then at the Courtauld Institute in London.

He lectured in Aesthetics and Communications at the Polytechnic of Central London, now the University of Westminster.

His 1987 article, "The Spectacle of AIDS", was included in The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader. ^[1] He also published Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media in 1986. He co-founded OutRage! in 1990, ^[2] and he and Keith Alcorn and Chris Woods set up its first meeting. He published Imagine Hope: AIDS and the Gay Identity in 2000.

Publications

• Watney, Simon (1977). Bloomsbury Abstraction: 1913–1916 (MA thesis). University of London. OCLC   272491553.
• Watney, Simon (1980). English Post-Impressionism. London: Eastview Editions. ISBN   978-0-89860-039-1.
• Watney, Simon (1984). Fantastic Painters. Bracken Books. ISBN   978-0-946495-20-7.
• Watney, Simon (1986). Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media. Media & society. Vol. 1. London: Routledge. ISBN   978-1-85178-022-8. JSTOR   10.5749/j.ctttv4sn.
• Carter, Erica; Watney, Simon, eds. (1989). Taking Liberties: AIDS and cultural politics. London: Serpent's Tail. ISBN   978-1-85242-147-2.
• Watney, Simon (1990). The Art of Duncan Grant. London: John Murray. ISBN   978-0-7195-4641-9.
• Watney, Simon (1994). Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS. London: Rivers Oram. ISBN   978-1-8548-9043-6.
• Watney, Simon (2000). Imagine Hope. London: Routledge. ISBN   978-1-84142-058-5.
• Watney, Simon (2007). 20 Sussex Churches. Snake River Press. ISBN   978-1-906022-00-6.
• Watney, Simon (2007). Bloomsbury in Sussex. Snake River Press. ISBN   978-1-906022-05-1.

References

1. Abelove, Henry, ed. (1993). The Lesbian and gay studies reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-90519-0.
2. "OutRage!". Bishopsgate Institute . Retrieved 30 June 2023.

External links

• Reimagining Hope: An Interview With Simon Watney (August 2013)