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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She is included because her history suggests connections between passing women , female transvestism , the dress - reform branch of the feminist movement , and Lesbianism . Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26 , 1832 , near ...
She is included because her history suggests connections between passing women , female transvestism , the dress - reform branch of the feminist movement , and Lesbianism . Mary Edwards Walker was born on November 26 , 1832 , near ...
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After the war , in 1866 , she was elected president of the small National Dress Reform Association , and made a successful speaking tour of England . In 1867 , she returned to Washington and lived for a few years with an energetic young ...
After the war , in 1866 , she was elected president of the small National Dress Reform Association , and made a successful speaking tour of England . In 1867 , she returned to Washington and lived for a few years with an energetic young ...
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These are men and women who for reasons that remain obscure take on the dress and habits of the opposite sex . Their number is small . Five men who lived as women were cited by an informant , two women who lived as men , and others are ...
These are men and women who for reasons that remain obscure take on the dress and habits of the opposite sex . Their number is small . Five men who lived as women were cited by an informant , two women who lived as men , and others are ...
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User Review - corinneblackmer - LibraryThingI feel I will always owe Ned Katz an enormous debt of gratitude for this early classic compendium on gay and lesbian history in the USA. First, he is both sincere and thorough in his feminism and ... Read full review
Contents
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F L SIM Alice Mitchell and the Murder of Freda Ward | 53 |
ALLAN MCLANE HAMILTON The Civil Responsibility of Sexual Perverts | 60 |
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| Title | Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. : a Documentary History |
| Author | Jonathan Katz |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Meridian, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0452010926, 9780452010925 |
| Length | 702 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies |
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