Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. : a Documentary History"This ground-breaking work is the primary sourcebook for an accurate, fascinating, historical account of American lesbians and gay men. Now with a new preface and an updated bibliography, the collection remains the most complete and authoritative reference work of the homosexual experience in the United States. Here are reprints of rare and hard-to-find documents that represent over four hundred years of oppression, conflict, and struggle in the New World. Among its wealth of provocative material are an 1891 photograph of male-male dancing in the Old West; a 1974 interview with a male homosexual victim of shock treatment; a 1629 journal account of 'sodomitical activity' among the first American colonists; and an account of lesbianism in the life of blues singer Bessie Smith. Impeccably researched and covering American history from the earliest European settlers and Native Americans to contemporary times, this volume is both a superb history and a deeply moving work." --Back cover |
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... condition of New York now - your knowl- edge of the condition of New York now ? A. My knowledge of the condition is as I observe it , as I pass through . Q. What has the condition when you were a boy got to do with the condition now ...
... condition of New York now - your knowl- edge of the condition of New York now ? A. My knowledge of the condition is as I observe it , as I pass through . Q. What has the condition when you were a boy got to do with the condition now ...
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... condition they describe is truly pathological , usually superimposed upon a neurotic constitution and represents the sexual desires of a lifetime . The conditions are not the same for the institutionalized and they represent a sort of ...
... condition they describe is truly pathological , usually superimposed upon a neurotic constitution and represents the sexual desires of a lifetime . The conditions are not the same for the institutionalized and they represent a sort of ...
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... conditions , which I am glad to say are slowly getting better . In the future centuries it is probable that woman will be the owner of her own body and the custodian of her own soul . But until that time you can expect that the statutes ...
... conditions , which I am glad to say are slowly getting better . In the future centuries it is probable that woman will be the owner of her own body and the custodian of her own soul . But until that time you can expect that the statutes ...
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