A Queer History of the United States

Michael Bronski

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Gay & Lesbian studies

Series: ReVisioning History

The first book to cover all of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction

The first comprehensive history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender America, from pre-1492 to the present

""Readable, radical, and smart-a must read.""-Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

Intellectually dynamic and endlessly provocative, this is more than a ""who's 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. Bronski highlights such groundbreaking moments of queer history as-

. In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage.

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Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in the early 1800s, changed her name to ""Publick Universal Friend,"" refused to use pronouns, fought for gender equality, and led her own congregation in upstate New York.

. In the mid-19th century, internationally famous Shakespearean actor Charlotte Cushman led an openly lesbian life, including a well-publicized ""female marriage.""

. in the late 1920s, Augustus Granville Dill was fired by W. E. B. Du Bois from the NAACP's magazine the Crisis after being arrested for a homosexual encounter.

Informative and empowering, this engrossing and revelatory treatise emphasizes that there is no American history without queer history.

By: Michael Bronski
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780807044650
ISBN 10: 0807044652
Series: ReVisioning History
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Bronski is professor of practice in media and activism in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Harvard University. He has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades, in both mainstream and queer publications, and is the author of three other books and editor of several anthologies.

Reviews for A Queer History of the United States

Bronski's book provides an excellent overview for readers new to the field of gay history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries... -- CHOICE Magazine <br>.. .A succinct distillation of the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders in America... Bronski's impeccable research bolsters his arguments... a useful handbook for LGBT activist groups and other interested members of the gay community. -- Boston Globe <br> In the age of Twitter and reductive history, we need a complex, fully realized, radical reassessment of history--and A Queer History of the United States is exactly that. Along the way, there are enough revelations and reassessments to fuel dozens of arguments about how we got to where we are today. I don't know when I have enjoyed a history so much. --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina <br> <br> Bronski has that rare ability to comprehensively synthesize a large body of material without simplifying or distorting it, takingt