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With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries.
"Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupp's indeed short, two-hundred-page history of 'same-sex love and sexuality' is not that it manages to account for such a variety of individuals, races, and classes or take in such a broad chronological and thematic range, but rather that it does all this with such verve, lucidity, and analytical rigor. . . . [A]n elegant, inspiring survey." —John Howard, Journal of American History
"Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupp's indeed short, two-hundred-page history of 'same-sex love and sexuality' is not that it manages to account for such a variety of individuals, races, and classes or take in such a broad chronological and thematic range, but rather that it does all this with such verve, lucidity, and analytical rigor. . . . [A]n elegant, inspiring survey." —John Howard, Journal of American History
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2020Print ISBN
9780226731568, 9780226731551eBook ISBN
9780226775333Index
Page numbers of photographs are in italic.
Abzug, Bella, 179
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains in the Years 1819 and ‘20, 63
actresses, 23
ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 179, 182–83
Addams, Jane, 89–90
Advise and Consent, 145
African Americans, 24–27, 41–42, 77–78, 82–84, 104, 106–10, 115, 120, 136, 142, 146, 148, 149–50, 165–66, 178, 195; romantic friendships of, 51–53, 87–88; sexual systems of, 24–27, 146, 195
African societies: contact with Europeans, 14, 24–25, 26; sexual systems of, 24–27
Aguilar, Grace, 51
AIDS, 179, 182, 193–94
Alarcón, Hernando de, 19
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 149, 185
Alexander, Jeb, 99, 117, 127, 147
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 67–68, 198
Amendment 2 (Colorado), 73
American Psychiatric Association, 182
American South. See South
Amsterdam, 21, 24
Anderson, May, 58–59
Angola, 24–25
Annual Reminders, 167, 177–78
Another Country, 145
Anthony, Lucy, 90
anticommunism, 140–41, 162
antigay movement, 73–75, 182
Armed Forces, same-sex sexuality in, 133–40, 142–43
artistic communities, 106–10, 119–20, 128, 145, 146–47, 164
Asian Americans, 54, 57, 156–58, 178, 195
assimilationist strategies, 162, 163, 164, 181–82, 194
Athens, relations between men in, 9, 16–17
Athens, Ohio, 101–2
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One. Introduction: Thinking about Aunt Leila
- Two. In the Beginning: Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America
- Three. Worlds of Men, Worlds of Women: Sex and Romantic Friendship in an Industrializing and Expanding Nation
- Four. Definitions and Deviance: Sexual Transformations at the Turn of the Century
- Five. Coming Together: Contested Identities and the Emergence of Communities
- Six. Becoming a People: Lesbian and Gay Worlds and the Organization of Resistance
- Seven. Conclusion: Something Old, Something New
- Notes
- References
- Index