# Simon Watney

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{{Short description|British art historian and AIDS activist}}
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'''Simon Watney''' (born 1949) is a British writer, [art historian](/source/art_historian), and [AIDS](/source/AIDS) [activist](/source/activist).

He studied art history at the [University of Sussex](/source/University_of_Sussex), and then at the [Courtauld Institute](/source/Courtauld_Institute) in London. 

He lectured in Aesthetics and Communications at the Polytechnic of Central London, now the [University of Westminster](/source/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](/source/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!](/source/OutRage!) in 1990,<ref>{{Cite web |title=OutRage! |url=https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/outrage |access-date=30 June 2023 |website=[Bishopsgate Institute](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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 ==
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== 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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