{{Short description|British art historian and AIDS activist}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} '''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''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Lesbian-and-Gay-Studies-Reader/Abelove-Barale-Halperin/p/book/9780415905190 |title=The Lesbian and gay studies reader |date=1993 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-90519-0 |editor-last=Abelove |editor-first=Henry |location=New York}}</ref> He also published ''Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media'' in 1986. He co-founded OutRage! in 1990,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OutRage! |url=https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/outrage |access-date=30 June 2023 |website=Bishopsgate Institute |language=en}}</ref> 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 == * {{Cite thesis |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=Bloomsbury Abstraction: 1913–1916 |date=1977 |degree=MA |publisher=University of London |oclc=272491553}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=English Post-Impressionism |date=1980 |publisher=Eastview Editions |isbn=978-0-89860-039-1 |location=London}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=Fantastic Painters |date=1984 |publisher=Bracken Books |isbn=978-0-946495-20-7}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media |date=1986 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-85178-022-8 |series=Media & society |volume=1 |location=London |jstor=10.5749/j.ctttv4sn}} * {{Cite book |editor1-last=Carter |editor1-first=Erica |editor2-last=Watney |editor2-first=Simon |title=Taking Liberties: AIDS and cultural politics |date=1989 |publisher=Serpent's Tail |isbn=978-1-85242-147-2 |location=London}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=The Art of Duncan Grant |date=1990 |publisher=John Murray |isbn=978-0-7195-4641-9 |location=London}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS |date=1994 |location=London |publisher=Rivers Oram |isbn=978-1-8548-9043-6 }} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |url=https://www.routledge.com/Imagine-Hope/Watney/p/book/9781841420578 |title=Imagine Hope |date=2000 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-84142-058-5 |location=London}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=20 Sussex Churches |date=2007 |publisher=Snake River Press |isbn=978-1-906022-00-6}} * {{Cite book |last=Watney |first=Simon |title=Bloomsbury in Sussex |date=2007 |publisher=Snake River Press |isbn=978-1-906022-05-1}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-adnum/reimagining-hope-an-interview-with-simon-watney_b_3769321.html Reimagining Hope: An Interview With Simon Watney (August 2013)]
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