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Throughout the 1980s, the American right wing attempted to control the field of social politics and social policy through a rhetoric of 'family'. In response, the left, including much of the lesbian and gay movement, abandoned an early, theorized antipathy to family, attempting to recapture the political field with ideas like 'alternative families' and 'families we chose'. These moves do not sufficiently account for the hidden glue that binds bodies to politics, national or anti-national. The glue, or, as Benedict Anderson calls it, 'political love' is no longer an affect to be rejected but a 'feeling' to be embraced. Examining the case of sexual abstinence in early right-wing AIDS discourse and in current websites, this article suggests that micro-politics of love are inextricable from macro-politics of nationalism.

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