Simon Watney is a British writer, art historian, and AIDS activist. 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 (1 July 1980). English Post-Impressionism. London: Eastview Editions. ISBN 978-0-89860-039-1.
• Watney, Simon (1 January 1984). Fantastic Painters. Bracken Books. ISBN 978-0-946495-20-7.
• Watney, Simon (1 October 1986). Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media. Media & society. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-85178-022-8. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctttv4sn.
• Carter, Erica; Watney, Simon (1 August 1989). Taking Liberties. London: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-85242-147-2.
• Watney, Simon (8 November 1990). The Art of Duncan Grant (1st ed.). London: John Murray Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7195-4641-9.
• Watney, Simon (1994). Practices of Freedom: Selected Writings on HIV/AIDS. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-1553-7.
• Watney, Simon (26 June 2000). Imagine Hope (1st ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-84142-058-5.
• Watney, Simon (15 February 2007). 20 Sussex Churches. Snake River Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906022-00-6.
• Watney, Simon (11 April 2007). Bloomsbury in Sussex. Snake River Press. ISBN 978-1-906022-05-1.