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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... inverts , or have among their acquaintances men whom they know to be sexually inverted . Everyone has seen inverts and knows what they are . The public attitude toward them is generally a negative one - indif- ference , amusement ...
... inverts , or have among their acquaintances men whom they know to be sexually inverted . Everyone has seen inverts and knows what they are . The public attitude toward them is generally a negative one - indif- ference , amusement ...
Page 138
... inverts have not sufficiently noted the dangers to which they expose their patients . . . . I do not think much of permanent cures of the sexual sense . Every imperfect cure may make of an invert a pervert ; and if the invert is ...
... inverts have not sufficiently noted the dangers to which they expose their patients . . . . I do not think much of permanent cures of the sexual sense . Every imperfect cure may make of an invert a pervert ; and if the invert is ...
Page 185
... inverts who do not wish to accept the status of being a homosexual . Such advice gives the person a feeling of futility , as though homosexuality was inborn and psychotherapy would only prove fruitless . Recommending marriage , per se ...
... inverts who do not wish to accept the status of being a homosexual . Such advice gives the person a feeling of futility , as though homosexuality was inborn and psychotherapy would only prove fruitless . Recommending marriage , per se ...
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