| Edition |
Rev. & updated, 1st Alyson Books ed. |
| Description |
xix, 677 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-644) and index. |
| Contents |
section 1. The "invention" of homosexuality -- 1. The age of Whitman -- 2. Pioneers of sexology -- Two case studies from Havelock Ellis's Sexual inversion -- 3. We'Wha goes to Washington : the Berdache -- On the frontier -- 4. Oscar Wilde -- An excerpt from Wilde's De Profundis -- Wilde and Bosie in Algiers, an excerpt from Gide's If it die -- 5. Romantic friendships between women -- Willa Cather -- The reporter and the first lady -- A "passing woman" : the strange case of Murray Hall -- 6. Sappho comes to Paris -- André Gide -- An excerpt from Proust's Sodom and Gomorrah -- An excerpt from Collette's The pure and the impure -- 7. England during the great war -- The sexual labyrinth of T.E. Lawrence -- J.R. Ackerley and the quest for the ideal friend -- Noël Coward -- 8. Germany's golden age -- Strindberg goes to a gay ball in Berlin, circa 1890, an excerpt from The cloister -- Two films : Different from the others and Madchen in uniform -- |
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section 2. Four Bohemias -- 9. Greenwich Village -- Degenerates of Greenwich Village, from the December 1936 issue of Current psychology and psychoanalysis -- 10. Renaissance in Harlem -- A drag ball in Harlem -- 11. Paris in the twenties -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- 12. Bloomsbury -- Vita and Harold -- An excerpt from Virginia Woolf's Orlando -- 13. The well of loneliness -- An excerpt from Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness -- |
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section 3. The triumph of ideology -- 14. Czars and commissars : homosexuality in Russia -- Diaghilev, Nijinsky, and the Ballets Russes -- Love between women in the Gulag, an excerpt form Vasily Grossman's Forever flowing -- 15. The Nazi persecution of homosexuals -- An excerpt from Heinz Heger's The men with the pink triangle -- 16. The United States in World War II -- An excerpt from Gore Vidal's The city and the pillar -- |
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section 4. Before Stonewall -- 17. The rise of the "gay is sick" shrinks -- 18. The age of McCarthy -- Lieutenant Blick of the vice squad -- The fruit machine -- 19. The struggle for British law reform, 1950-1967 -- Victim -- Alan Turing, secret hero -- Piccadilly polari -- Canada reforms its laws -- 20. The other side of the 1950s -- Tennessee Williams and fifties theater -- James Baldwin and Giovanni's room -- 21. The other side of the 1950s, part 2 : lesbian butch/femme culture -- Black poet in a white butch/femme world -- Lorraine Hansberry -- 22. The homophiles -- "The raid," an excerpt from One magazine -- The secret life of J. Edgar Hoover -- The word gay -- Bayard Rustin, "outside agitator" -- |
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section 5. The gay liberation decades -- 23. Stonewall and the birth of gay and lesbian liberation -- "A gay manifesto" -- Lesbianism and the women's movement, an excerpt from Rita Mae Brown's "The shape of things to come" -- Gay liberation comes to London -- Gay liberation comes to Paris -- 24. The 1970s : the times of Harvey Milk and Anita Bryant -- Leonard Matlovich : a soldier's story -- In the statehouse : representative Elaine Noble and senator Allen Spear -- The man who saved the president -- The rise of the gay press -- 25. Sex and music in the seventies -- 26. Lesbian nation and women's music -- 27. The 1980s : the age of AIDS -- An excerpt from Randy Shilts's And the band played on -- The Vatican cracks down -- The great lesbian sex debates -- Michel Foucault -- The contradictions of the gay conservative : Terry Dolan -- The gay fiction boom of the 1980s -- |
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section 6. The international scene -- 28. Communism and fascism -- 29. England : the battle over clause 28 -- Simon Nkoli -- 30. Japan -- Excerpts from Mishima's Confession of a mask and Forbidden colors -- |
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section 7. The gay moment -- 31. The Clinton years -- Voices from the military debate -- The many lives of Martina Navratilova -- The year of the lesbian -- 32. Into the new millennium -- September 11, 2001 -- The AIDS tides turns, at least from some -- Under siege in Southern Africa and Egypt -- That's entertainment -- Marriage around the world. |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- History.
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Homosexuality. |
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History. |
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Homosexuality. |
| ISBN |
1555838707 |
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9781555838706 |
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