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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... look upon him with favor , since it means that he will remain a member of the household and do almost double the work of woman , who necessarily ceases at times from her labors at the mill and other duties to bear children and to look ...
... look upon him with favor , since it means that he will remain a member of the household and do almost double the work of woman , who necessarily ceases at times from her labors at the mill and other duties to bear children and to look ...
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... look after him , & mention me . I hear he professes Mathematics.43 Edmund Gosse passed his copy of A Problem in Modern Ethics along to novelist Henry James , who thus became another of the few Americans to read Symonds's pioneering ...
... look after him , & mention me . I hear he professes Mathematics.43 Edmund Gosse passed his copy of A Problem in Modern Ethics along to novelist Henry James , who thus became another of the few Americans to read Symonds's pioneering ...
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... look to me of confidential meaning that she thought I would understand but the significance of which I did not get ... look in her eyes you see something there , " continued Mary . " But what does she look like ? " I persisted . " Is she ...
... look to me of confidential meaning that she thought I would understand but the significance of which I did not get ... look in her eyes you see something there , " continued Mary . " But what does she look like ? " I persisted . " Is she ...
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