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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... hand , the aim of my research , while physically most ambitious , was intellectually quite modest - to simply recover and present a significantly large , wide- ranging collection of historical documents concerning six selected aspects ...
... hand , the aim of my research , while physically most ambitious , was intellectually quite modest - to simply recover and present a significantly large , wide- ranging collection of historical documents concerning six selected aspects ...
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... hand : she spoke often of the debacle that was upon the heels of the world , upon her own heels - of everything ... hands . I could not think what it was they expressed so fluently , but it was something vital and feminine and even ...
... hand : she spoke often of the debacle that was upon the heels of the world , upon her own heels - of everything ... hands . I could not think what it was they expressed so fluently , but it was something vital and feminine and even ...
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... hand and laid it shyly upon her left breast , cupping it with my palm . Instantly it was attuned to a music of the finest vibration . From between her young breast and the sensitive palm of my hand there arose all about us , it seemed ...
... hand and laid it shyly upon her left breast , cupping it with my palm . Instantly it was attuned to a music of the finest vibration . From between her young breast and the sensitive palm of my hand there arose all about us , it seemed ...
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