About this item
Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, this is more than a whos who of queer history: it is a narrative that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the present, a testament to how the LGBTQ+ experience has profoundly shaped American culture and history.
American history abounds with unknown or ignored examples of queer life, from the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies to the prevalence of cross-dressing women soldiers in the Civil War and resistance to homophobic social purity movements.
About the Author
Michael Bronski, co-author of "You Can Tell Just By Looking" (Beacon, Oct. 2013.) He is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. He has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades, in both mainstream and queer publications. His A Queer History of the United States won a Lammy Literary Award in 2012, as well as the American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman award that same year. His Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps won a Lambda Literary Award in 2003.Photo: Marilyn Humphries
