Category: History

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Dear Sammy by Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas | Dear Sammy | Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striki

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Queer Identities And Politics In Germany by Clayton J. Whisnant

Clayton J. Whisnant | Queer Identities And Politics In Germany | Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history, including the growth of the world’s first hom

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A Queer Thing Happened To America by Michael L. Brown

Michael L. Brown | A Queer Thing Happened To America | Forty years ago, most Americans said they didn’t know anyone who was homosexual and claimed to know little or nothing about homosexuality. Today, ther

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Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones by James T. Sears

James T. Sears | Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones | In the decade following the 1969 clashes at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, the emergence of communities among Southern lesbians, bisexuals, g

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Sapphistries by Leila J. Rupp

Leila J. Rupp | Sapphistries | From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with

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Hear Us Out! by Nancy Garden

Nancy Garden | Hear Us Out! |

What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe by Rudolf M. Dekker; Lotte Van de Pol

Rudolf M. Dekker; Lotte Van de Pol | The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe | In 17th- and 18th-century Europe, especially in Holland, England, and Germany, many women chose to dress and live as men. Based upon 119 well-document

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Steel Closets by Anne Balay

Anne Balay | Steel Closets |

Synopsis

Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America st

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Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls And Twilight Lovers | Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today’s diverse lifestyles. Using journals, u

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Dear Sammy by Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein; Samuel M. Steward; Alice B. Toklas | Dear Sammy | Letters to Steward from the famous expatriate pair, dating from the 1930s through 1966, reflect a true friendship among the correspondents, the striki