Thomas A. Foster is Professor of History at Howard University, in Washington, DC, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.pasting

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Long Before Stonewall Thomas A. FosterPart I Colonial Native Americas1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest Ramon A. Gutierrez2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-WomenGunlog Fur3 "Abominable Sin" in Colonial New MexicoTracy BrownPart II Colonial British America4 "The Cry of Sodom": Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England Richard Godbeer5 Border CrossingsAnne G. Myles6 Hermaphrodites and "Same-Sex" Sex in Early America Elizabeth Reisvii7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual CultureClare A. LyonsPart III Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men Lillian Faderman9 Leander, Lorenzo, and CastalioCaleb Crain10 The Swan of Litch?eldLisa L. MoorePart IV Reformers in the New Nation11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic Mark E. Kann12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic,1790-1820 John Saillant13 What's Sex Got to Do with It? Laura Mandell14 In a French Position: Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the Secret Witness Stephen ShapiroAfterword John D'EmilioAbout the Contributors Index About the Editor

Half the 14 essays in this interdisciplinary study of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century America are reprintsthough its useful to have work that appeared in academic journals collected in one place. Among original work, Ramon A. Gutierrez's revisionist perspective on Native American berdache will raise the most eyebrows: rather than exalt their same-sex spirituality, fashionable among gay liberationists and radical faeries alike, the author's theory is that they led lives of sexual 'humiliation and endless work, not of celebration and veneration.' Among the reprints, Caleb Crain's account of a romantic triangle among three Philadelphia men that began in 1786, culled from their diaries, is the sweetest. Several essays draw on court records dating back as far as three hundred years to unearth queer lives, while others glean an intriguing and instructive glimpse of the past through a reading of Colonial-era fiction and journalism. (Q Syndicate) Illuminate[s] the complexity, breadth, and social impact of sexuality in history. (The Gay & Lesbian Review) A powerful interdisciplinary compilation that will keep specialists and general readers thoroughly engaged. . . . Long Before Stonewall redirects our attention to a period of American history that for too long has been undervalued as a field for scholarly inquiry into sexuality. (Journal of the Early Republic) Thoughtful, persuasive, solidly constructed, and likely to endure the test of time. (Choice) An excellent introduction to the dynamic new work on sexuality in colonial and early national America, which not only expands our understanding of early America but forces us to rethink paradigms and periodizations that have long governed histories of sexuality in the U.S. A valuable contribution. - George Chauncey,author of Why Marriage?

Thomas A. Foster is Professor of History at Howard University, in Washington, DC, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.pasting

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Long Before Stonewall Thomas A. FosterPart I Colonial Native Americas1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest Ramon A. Gutierrez2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-WomenGunlog Fur3 "Abominable Sin" in Colonial New MexicoTracy BrownPart II Colonial British America4 "The Cry of Sodom": Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England Richard Godbeer5 Border CrossingsAnne G. Myles6 Hermaphrodites and "Same-Sex" Sex in Early America Elizabeth Reisvii7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual CultureClare A. LyonsPart III Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men Lillian Faderman9 Leander, Lorenzo, and CastalioCaleb Crain10 The Swan of Litch?eldLisa L. MoorePart IV Reformers in the New Nation11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic Mark E. Kann12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic,1790-1820 John Saillant13 What's Sex Got to Do with It? Laura Mandell14 In a French Position: Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the Secret Witness Stephen ShapiroAfterword John D'EmilioAbout the Contributors Index About the Editor

Half the 14 essays in this interdisciplinary study of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century America are reprintsthough its useful to have work that appeared in academic journals collected in one place. Among original work, Ramon A. Gutierrez's revisionist perspective on Native American berdache will raise the most eyebrows: rather than exalt their same-sex spirituality, fashionable among gay liberationists and radical faeries alike, the author's theory is that they led lives of sexual 'humiliation and endless work, not of celebration and veneration.' Among the reprints, Caleb Crain's account of a romantic triangle among three Philadelphia men that began in 1786, culled from their diaries, is the sweetest. Several essays draw on court records dating back as far as three hundred years to unearth queer lives, while others glean an intriguing and instructive glimpse of the past through a reading of Colonial-era fiction and journalism. (Q Syndicate) Illuminate[s] the complexity, breadth, and social impact of sexuality in history. (The Gay & Lesbian Review) A powerful interdisciplinary compilation that will keep specialists and general readers thoroughly engaged. . . . Long Before Stonewall redirects our attention to a period of American history that for too long has been undervalued as a field for scholarly inquiry into sexuality. (Journal of the Early Republic) Thoughtful, persuasive, solidly constructed, and likely to endure the test of time. (Choice) An excellent introduction to the dynamic new work on sexuality in colonial and early national America, which not only expands our understanding of early America but forces us to rethink paradigms and periodizations that have long governed histories of sexuality in the U.S. A valuable contribution. - George Chauncey,author of Why Marriage?

Thomas A. Foster is Professor of History at Howard University, in Washington, DC, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.pasting

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Long Before Stonewall Thomas A. FosterPart I Colonial Native Americas1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest Ramon A. Gutierrez2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-WomenGunlog Fur3 "Abominable Sin" in Colonial New MexicoTracy BrownPart II Colonial British America4 "The Cry of Sodom": Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England Richard Godbeer5 Border CrossingsAnne G. Myles6 Hermaphrodites and "Same-Sex" Sex in Early America Elizabeth Reisvii7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual CultureClare A. LyonsPart III Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men Lillian Faderman9 Leander, Lorenzo, and CastalioCaleb Crain10 The Swan of Litch?eldLisa L. MoorePart IV Reformers in the New Nation11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic Mark E. Kann12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic,1790-1820 John Saillant13 What's Sex Got to Do with It? Laura Mandell14 In a French Position: Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the Secret Witness Stephen ShapiroAfterword John D'EmilioAbout the Contributors Index About the Editor

Half the 14 essays in this interdisciplinary study of seventeenth- through nineteenth-century America are reprintsthough its useful to have work that appeared in academic journals collected in one place. Among original work, Ramon A. Gutierrez's revisionist perspective on Native American berdache will raise the most eyebrows: rather than exalt their same-sex spirituality, fashionable among gay liberationists and radical faeries alike, the author's theory is that they led lives of sexual 'humiliation and endless work, not of celebration and veneration.' Among the reprints, Caleb Crain's account of a romantic triangle among three Philadelphia men that began in 1786, culled from their diaries, is the sweetest. Several essays draw on court records dating back as far as three hundred years to unearth queer lives, while others glean an intriguing and instructive glimpse of the past through a reading of Colonial-era fiction and journalism. (Q Syndicate) Illuminate[s] the complexity, breadth, and social impact of sexuality in history. (The Gay & Lesbian Review) A powerful interdisciplinary compilation that will keep specialists and general readers thoroughly engaged. . . . Long Before Stonewall redirects our attention to a period of American history that for too long has been undervalued as a field for scholarly inquiry into sexuality. (Journal of the Early Republic) Thoughtful, persuasive, solidly constructed, and likely to endure the test of time. (Choice) An excellent introduction to the dynamic new work on sexuality in colonial and early national America, which not only expands our understanding of early America but forces us to rethink paradigms and periodizations that have long governed histories of sexuality in the U.S. A valuable contribution. - George Chauncey,author of Why Marriage?