A Desired Past

A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America

Leila J. Rupp

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Jahr: 2020
• ISBN:
  9780226775333
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Sociology

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

Index

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

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