Author’s Note
Introduction
One: The Persecuting Society
Two: Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions
Three: Imagining a Queer America
Four: A Democracy of Death and Art
Five: A Dangerous Purity
Seven: Production and Marketing of Gender
Eight: Sex in the Trenches
Nine: Visible Communities/Invisible Lives
Ten: Revolt/Backlash/Resistance
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Credits
Index
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.
“Bronski does a stunning job of sweeping across five hundred years
and weaving ‘queer’ through the history of this nation. Always
insightful, and provocative.”—John D’Emilio, author of Lost
Prophet
“The first book to cover all of LGBT history from 1492 through the
present is Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States
(Beacon Press). It is wonderfully readable and looks at the way we
understand the history of the United States. The LGBT population
moves from the margins to the mainstream and we see that the
history of this country also is our history.”—Windy City Times
“Bronski's book provides an excellent overview for readers new to
the field of gay history. Summing Up: Essential. All
levels/libraries...”—CHOICE Magazine
“...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
“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
“Bronski has that rare ability to comprehensively synthesize a
large body of material without simplifying or distorting it, taking
as much care with historical evidence as with the shifts in
language necessary to accurately understand it.”—Martin Duberman,
Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, City University of New
York
“This book is a revelation. Its lively and engaging narrative peels
back layers of cultural interconnection—from the creation of corn
flakes to curb masturbation to Bette Midler’s rise to stardom that
started at a gay bathhouse—and much more. Bronski has a Zinn-like
grasp of the ties that bind us all together and how to illuminate
them on the page.”—Jewelle Gomez, activist and author of The Gilda
Stories
“Bronski demonstrates with wit, insight, and impeccable scholarship
that queer lives are, and always have been, woven into the very
fabric of this country. Readable, radical, and smart—a must
read.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
“Elegant, insightfully selective, and unremittingly intelligent,
Bronski’s survey—of the whys and the ways queer people’s work and
struggle have been integral in forming what we call ‘the United
States of America’—is an impressive and useful overview."—Samuel R.
Delany, author of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
“A savvy political, legal, literary (and even fashion) history,
Bronski’s narrative is as intellectually rigorous as it is
entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Bronski does a stunning job of sweeping across five hundred years
and weaving ‘queer’ through the history of this nation. Always
insightful, and provocative.”—John D’Emilio, author of Lost
Prophet
“[A] monumental achievement.”—The Bay Area Reporter
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