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This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of queer life in America.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Where Are We to Begin? – John Howard
Part I: Categories of Sexuality
2. Romantic Friendship – Leila J. Rupp
3. "Someone to Talk Our Language": Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and the Little Review in Chicago – Holly A. Baggett
4. The New Negro Renaissance, A Bisexual Renaissance: The Lives and Works of Angelina Weld Grimké and Richard Bruce Nugent – Brett Beemyn
Part II: Evidence, Narrative, and Biography
5. "The Burning of Letters Continues": Elusive Identities and the Historical Construction of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman
6. Paula Snelling: A Significant Other – Margaret Rose Gladney
7. Homophobia and the Trajectory of Postwar American Radicalism: The Career of Bayard Rustin – John D’Emilio
Part III: Science, Fictions
8. Perverting the Diagnosis: The Lesbian and the Scientific Basis of Stigma – Allida M. Black
9. "A Thought a Mother Can Hardly Face": Sissy Boys, Parents, and Professionals in Mid-Twentieth-Century America – Julia Grant
10. Something They Did in the Dark: Lesbian and Gay Novels in the United States, 1948-1973 – Chris Freeman
Part IV: Community, Institutions
11. Rizzo’s Raiders, Beaten Beats, and Coffeehouse Culture in 1950s Philadelphia – Marc Stein
12. Black Feminist Organizations and the Emergence of Interstitial Politics – Kimberly Springer
13. Protest and Protestantism: Early Lesbian and Gay Institution Building in Mississippi – John Howard
Part V: Public Debates and Public Policy
14. Health Care, the AIDS Crisis, and the Politics of Community: The North Carolina Lesbian and Gay Health Project, 1982-1996 – Ian K. Lekus
15. The Immigrant Infection: Images of Race, Nation, and Contagion in the Public Debates on AIDS and Immigration – Jennifer Brier
16. The Myth of Lesbian (In)Visibility: World War II and the Current "Gays in the Military" Debate – Leisa D. Meyer
Conclusion
17. Where Are We Now, Where Are We Going, and Who Gets to Say? – Vicki L. Eaklor
About the Contributors
About the author
Allida M. Black is Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project, as well as Research Professor of History, The George Washington University.
Summary
Offers a collection of essays which consider the history as well as the historiography of the queer identities and struggles that developed in the United States in the midst of widespread upheaval and change.
