A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBT people in US society.[2] It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them.[3][4]
A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011. It was recognized with a Stonewall Book Award in 2012.[1][4] The author, Michael Bronski, is a professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, and professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.[5]
Chapters
- The Persecuting Society
- Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions
- Imagining a Queer America
- A Democracy of Death and Art
- A Dangerous Purity
- Life on the Stage, Life in the City
- Production and Marketing of Gender
- Sex in the Trenches
- Visible Communities, Invisible Lives
- Revolt, Backlash, Resistance
See also
- Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976)
- Transgender History (2008)
- Real Queer America (2019)
- LGBT history in the United States
- History of the United States
- 2011 in literature
References
- ^ a b "Stonewall Book Awards List § 2012". ALA.org. American Library Association. September 9, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
- ^ Hari, Johann (May 23, 2011). "How Gays Helped Make and Remake America". Slate. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ Liebetrau, Eric (May 17, 2011). "Reassessing 500 years of American history: A scholarly look at the LGBT experience". Boston.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ a b Barber, Bonnie (February 23, 2012). "Professor Michael Bronski Wins Prestigious Stonewall Book Award". Dartmouth Now. Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ^ "Michael Bronski". Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Harvard University. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
Further reading
- Wexelbaum, Rachel (June 20, 2011). "'A Queer History of the United States' by Michael Bronski and 'Queer America: A People's LGBT History of the United States' by Vicki L. Eaklor". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- Ireland, Doug (October 13, 2011). "Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States — review". Doug Ireland. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- Reed, Jennifer (February 2012). "A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski" (PDF). The History Teacher. 45 (2). The Society for History Education: 297–98. ISSN 0018-2745. Retrieved June 22, 2016.