The LGBTQ+ history book

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The LGBTQ+ history book / contributors, Prof. Michael Bronski, consultant editor ; Dr. Kit Heyam, consultant editor ; Prof. Valerie Traub, consultant editor, Jon Astbury, Hannah Ayres, Nick Cherryman, Abigail Mitchell, Melissa Martin.

Bronski, Michael, (editor.). Heyam, Kit, 1990- (editor.). Traub, Valerie, 1958- (editor.). Astbury, Jon, (contributor.). Ayres, Hannah, (contributor.). Cherryman, Nick, (contributor.). Martin, Melissa, (author.). Mitchell, Abigail, (author.).

Summary:

Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution.

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ISBN: 9780744070736
Physical Description: 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

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General Note:: Includes index.

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Table of Contents

Summary

Introduction

(6)

EARLY EXPLORATIONS

When heroes love

(2)

The earliest evidence for LGBTQ+ people

Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles

(4)

Gender and sexuality in ancient Greece

You whom of all women I most desire

(4)

Sappho of Lesbos

The passion of the cut sleeve

(2)

Favorites in Han China

Every woman's man and every man's woman

(6)

Gender and sexuality in ancient Rome

Who does what, where, when, and why, who knows?

(2)

The Kama Sutra

The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire

(4)

The early Christian Church

This type of love rebels against nature

(4)

Sodomy and the medieval Catholic Church

I die of love for him

(2)

The Abbasid Caliphate

I want to be like nature made me

(10)

Intersex rights

RENAISSANCE AND RETRIBUTION

Infinite beauty

(2)

Renaissance Italy

A thousand naughty conceits and lusty words

(2)

Homoeroticism and the French Renaissance

A nightingale among the beautiful

(2)

Ottoman gender and sexuality

The abominable vice will be eliminated

(2)

The Spanish Inguisition

Christian guilt is still very strong

(2)

Colonial Latin America

Cruel, indecent, and ridiculous

(4)

The criminalization of sodomy

You have me all on fire

(2)

Pornography

My joy, my crown, my friend!

(8)

Early modern lesbianism

O thou, my lovely boy

Male-male love poetry

My clerk judged they were both women

(2)

AFAB cross-dressers and "female husbands"

The Great Mirror of Male Love

(6)

Male love in Edo Japan

SUBCULTURES AND PUBLICITY

Making what use I please of my own body

(2)

Molly houses

Conversing with my beloved

(4)

Erotic friendship in America and Europe

Making love with one's own likeness

(2)

Same-sex narratives in Urdu poetry

Finding yourself in the bosom of your kind

(1)

Sapphism

Wearing the man's attire and putting on the sword

(1)

AFAB people in combat

Far from outraging Nature, we serve her

100

(2)

Revolutionary France

I love, and only love, the fairer sex

102

(2)

The diaries of Anne Lister

This scandalous tumult

104

(2)

Changing Ottoman society

An entirely different law of nature

106

(2)

Defining "homosexual" and "heterosexual"

They say it's the soul which is hijra

108

(2)

Hijras and British colonialism

Not seeking men, but seeking each other

110

(2)

Belle Epoque Paris

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

112

(6)

Drag

Two ladies, living sweetly and devotedly together

118

(2)

Boston marriages

Simultaneously a beautiful woman and a potent man

120

(2)

Gender nonconformity and colonial constraints in Africa

That which appears in nature is natural

122

(2)

First recognition of asexuality

The Love that Dare not speak its Name

124

(2)

The trial of Oscar Wilde

I could express myself better dressed as a boy

126

(1)

Male impersonators

Bona to vada your dolly old eek!

127

(5)

The secret language of Polari

SEXOLOGY AND SEXUAL IDENTITIES

Homosexuality is no vice, no degradation

132

(2)

Sexology and psychoanalysis

Visions of transformation

134

(2)

Gender transgression in modern China

Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected

136

(6)

The first gender affirmation surgeries

To show what it means to be gay

142

(4)

LGBTQ+ films

A powerfully queer place

146

(2)

The first gay village

Surely as gay as it was Black

148

(4)

The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age

You're more than just neither, honey

152

(4)

Butch and femme

We who wore the pink triangle

156

(6)

Persecution during the Holocaust

I am a realist and not an obscene writer

162

(1)

Ismat Chughtai's obscenity trial

We do not speak of love. Our faces scream of it

163

(1)

The Beat Generation

Not an all-or-none proposition

164

(2)

Kinsey's research on sexology

It was a witch hunt

166

(2)

The Lavender Scare

A love of our own kind

168

(1)

Female writers' rejection of labels

I am with you, I am like you

169

(1)

Brazilian Pajuba

Gay is good

170

(8)

Toward gay liberation

Democracy with repression is not democracy

178

(2)

Latin American LGBTQ+ movements

Queer parody

180

(2)

Camp

Screaming Queens

182

(2)

The Compton's Cafeteria Riot

Not the law's business

184

(6)

The decriminalization of same-sex acts

PROTESTS, PRIDE, AND COALITION

I'm gay and I'm proud

190

(6)

The Stonewall Uprising

Equally valid, equally justified, equally beautiful

196

(8)

Transgender rights

You have nothing to lose but your hang-ups

204

(2)

CAMP Australia and the Sydney Mardi Gras

Feminism is the theory; lesbianism is the practice

206

(2)

Political lesbianism

To be free, to come out, to play sports

208

(2)

LGBTQ+ athletes come out

I am stronger for all my identities

210

(4)

Black lesbian feminism

Whatever you want to be, you be

214

(2)

The spread of ball culture

One small step for genkind

216

(2)

Pronouns and neopronouns

Self-contained sexuality

218

(1)

The Asexual Manifesto

Depathologizing homosexuality

219

(1)

Removal of homosexuality from the DSM

Thailand has three genders

220

(2)

Kathoey in Thailand

Homosexuality began to speak on its own behalf

222

(2)

Foucault's History of Sexuality

Our sexuality is all of the colors

224

(2)

The creation of the Pride flag

Let that bullet destroy every closet door

226

(2)

The assassination of Harvey Milk

We're just another family

228

(4)

LGBTQ+ parenting

Lesbians are not women

232

(1)

"The Straight Mind"

Heterosexuality is a political institution

233

(1)

Compulsory heterosexuality

We did it for the underground

234

(2)

The birth of gueer punk

Together I am everything I am

236

(2)

Maori gender and sexuality

A plague that was allowed to happen

238

(4)

The AIDS epidemic

Solidarity in struggle

242

(2)

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

Silence = Death

244

(2)

AIDS activism

The crossroads of being

246

(2)

Anzaldiia's Borderlands

Legalized prejudice

248

(6)

Section 28

OUT IN THE OPEN

We await the day when we can lift the clouds

254

(2)

LGBTQ+ activism in Asia

We're here! We're queer! Get used to it

256

(2)

Reclaiming the term "queer"

It is the spirit that is your gender

258

(4)

Indigenous American Two-Spirit people

A whole, fluid identity

262

(4)

Bisexuality

Nobody really is a gender from the start

266

(2)

Butler's Gender Trouble

Sexuality constituted as secrecy

268

(2)

Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet

Fear of a queer planet

270

(2)

Heteronormativity

To lie in order to serve

272

(4)

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Tomboys and wives

276

(2)

Chinese lala communities

It was not God that rejected me

278

(2)

LGBTQ+ Muslims

Not a puzzle with a missing piece

280

(4)

The aromantic and asexual spectrum

His legacy has inspired us to erase hate

284

(2)

The murder of Matthew Shepard

I don't need to be fixed

286

(2)

Conversion therapy is banned

Love wins

288

(6)

Marriage equality

I like the wine, not the label

294

(2)

Pansexuality

A queer psychology of affect

296

(1)

Affect theory

We learned to be quare, Black, and proud

297

(1)

Queer of color theory

Disability is queer, queerer than queer

298

(4)

Queer disability studies

The violence of liberalism

302

(2)

Homonationalism

I see myself as my own surrogate

304

(2)

Transgender pregnancy and reproductive health care

We need our oxygen to breathe

306

(2)

The LGBTQ+ struggle in modern Africa

Where 49 lives were taken, 49 legacies began

308

(2)

The Pulse shooting

Safe, fair, and science-based

310

(2)

Laws lifted against MSM donating blood