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A queer history of the United States
Published [2026] by Beacon Press, Boston
ISBN 9780807023488
Bib Id 1584441
Copyright 2011
Edition 15th anniversary edition, revised and expanded.
Description xxiii, 312 pages : 24 cm.
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2026007723
ISBN
9780807023488 (hardcover) $29.95
0807023485
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306.766 B
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Title
A queer history of the United States
Edition
15th anniversary edition, revised and expanded.
Publication Information
[2026] by Beacon Press, Boston :
Copyright Date
©2011
Description
xxiii, 312 pages : 24 cm.
Note
Previous edition: 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: some thoughts on queerness and history -- The persecuting society -- Sexually ambiguous revolutions -- Imagining a queer America -- A democracy of death and art -- A dangerous purity -- Life on the stage/life in the city -- Production and marketing of gender -- Sex in the trenches -- Visible communities/invisible lives -- Revolt/backlash/resistance -- A short meditation on history: an interlude -- New worlds/old problems/brave solutions -- Resistance/power/rights.
Summary
"It is the first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present, and this new edition further illuminates how profoundly LGBTQ+ people have changed America. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and popular culture, Bronski weaves a comprehensive tapestry of LGBTQ+ history, providing startling examples of unknown or ignored aspects of our collective past. From the ineffectivesness of sodomy laws in the colonies, to how rock music and youth culture unintentionally engendered the devastating backlash against gay rights in the late 1970s; from individuals such as Robert Treat Paine and Ezekiel Dodge, Harvard classmates in 1774 who formed a deep, loving relationship and wrote passionate love letters to one another, to Lucy Hicks Anderson, a married African American socialite and celebrity chef in Oxnard, California, whose story appeared in Time magazine in 1945 after her transgender identity became known, Bronski covers an electic breadth of facts and stories. This revised edition includes details on the evolution of the transgender liberation movement, the upsurge of vibrant queer movements of color, and the groundbreaking emergence of new sexual and gender identities, and concludes by analyzing the current conservative backlash against LGBTQ+ rights, racial and social justice policies, and the drive to eradicate historical diversity. Not so much about "gay history" as it is about all American history, Bronski's dynamic and revealing narrative radically reframes how we understand our past and, more importantly, our present" -- From dust jacket.
Awards
[2011 edition: Stonewall Honor Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award, 2012]
Genre/Form
LGBTQ+ culture.
LGBTQ+ movement.
Social movements.
Informational works
LGBTQ+ movement.
Social movements.
Informational works
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