Description
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last half century, queer history has developed as a collaborative project involving academic researchers, community scholars, and the public. Initially rejected by most colleges and universities, queer history was sustained for many years by community-based contributors and audiences. Academic activism eventually made a place for queer history within higher education, which in turn helped queer historians become more influential in politics, law, and society. Through a collection of essays written over three decades by award-winning historian Marc Stein, Queer Public History charts the evolution of queer historical interventions in the academic sphere and explores the development of publicly oriented queer historical scholarship. From the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the rise of queer activism in the 1990s to debates about queer immigration, same-sex marriage, and the politics of gay pride in the early twenty-first century, Stein introduces readers to key themes
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Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it." * Public Historian *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s
1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide
2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington
Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest
3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers
4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market
5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues
6. Political History and the History of Sexuality
Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism
7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street,
Philadelphia, USA
8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves
9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In
10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia
11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting
Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions
12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex
13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush
14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name
15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order
16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina”
Part Five. Queer Immigration
17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003)
18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution
19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump
20. Defectives of the World, Unite!
Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court
21. Queer Eye for the FBI
22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years
23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage
24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade
25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy
Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History
26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project
27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit
28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell
Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity
29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution
30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein
32. Stonewall and Queens
33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
