Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

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2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the up to date era to specific their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one any other, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, whilst others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.

Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial The us and the early Republic, in addition to to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary number of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It’s also a challenge to recurrently accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Right through, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which up to date sexual political movements and identities are built.

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