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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 Grimke 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
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.
