American Queer, Now and Then

David Shneer is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Caryn Aviv is a Marsico Lecturer and an affiliated faculty with the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Together they have coauthored Queer Jews (Routledge, 2002) and New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (NYU, 2005).

• Chapter 1 Bulldykes, Faggots, and Fairies, Oh My!; The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (1978), Audre Lorde; Classifications of Homosexuality (1916); Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin; Gay New York (1994), George Chauncey; Chapter 2 Are We Free to Be You and Me?; Sex Variants (1941), George Henry; Sexual Deviations (1968, 1980); Introduction to Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996), Loren Cameron; My Gender Workbook (1998), Kate Bornstein; Chapter 3 Out and About; Homosexual Complexion Perverts in St. Louis: Note on a Feature of Psychopathy (1907); “I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to That Bar”: Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (1993), Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline Davis; Renegotiating the Social/Sexual Identities of Places, Wayne Myslik; At the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2003), Bonnie J. Morris; One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (1996), William G. Hawkeswood, Alex W. Costley; Chapter 4 The Birds and the … Birds; Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (1926), Richard Bruce Nugent; Opening Pandora’s Box (2004), Christi Cassidy; Mike Goes to the Baths (1984), Michael Callen; Paradigms Old and New (1998), Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt; It’s a White Man’s World (2005), Dwight A. McBride; Chapter 5 Where Are Our White Picket Fences?; Younger Brother Dynamics (2000), Dan Savage; Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible (2001), Suzanna Danuta Walters; Queer Families Quack Back (2002), Judith Stacey, Elizabeth Davenport; Weddings/Celebrations (2002), Daniel Gross, Steven Goldstein; Ruling in Goodridge v. Massachusetts DePartment of Health (2003), Margaret Marshall; Chapter 6 To See and Be Seen; Why Did I Write The Well of Loneliness? (1934), Radclyffe Hall; Angels in America (1992), Tony Kushner; Prologue to All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (2003), Suzanna Danuta Walters; Chapter 7 Sticks and Stones; Stone Butch Blues (1993), Leslie Feinberg; The Laramie Project (2001), Moisés Kaufman; Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem (1995), Valerie Jenness; National School Climate Survey, Key Findings (2003), Gay Lesbian; Ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), Justice Anthony Kennedy; Chapter 8 I Am That Name; The Society for Human Rights (1925), Henry Gerber; The Stone Wall (1930), Mary Casal; Statement of Missions and Purposes (1951); The Ladder (1956); The Woman Identified Woman (1971); Introduction to Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983), Barbara Smith; No More Business as Usual (1987); Mission Statement (1986); Mission Statement (1993); Mission Statement (1995); Mission Statement (1990); Mission Statement (2004); Chapter 9; Conclusion Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma (1995), Josh Gamson Heeding Isaiah’s Call (2002), David Shneer, Caryn Aviv;

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