Read A Queer History of the United States Online
Authors: Michael Bronski
Tags: #General, #History, #Social Science, #Sociology, #United States, #Lesbian Studies, #Gay Studies
Finistere
(Peters), 184
Firestone, Shulamith, xiii, xiv
Fireworks
(Anger), 199
Flaming Creatures
(Smith), 199
Fletcher, Bruz, 122
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 146â47, 148
food, 84â85
foster care, 223, 236
Fouratt, Jim, 210
Franklin, Benjamin, 27, 28
freedom.
See
liberty
free love movements, 82, 144, 204
Freud, Sigmund, 126
Friedan, Betty, 212
friendship.
See
homosocial space
Friganza, Trixie, 120
Fuller, Margaret, 51â52, 148
Funicello, Annette, 195
Ganymede, 14, 51â52
Garbo, Greta, 196, 216
Garland, Judy, 182
Gay, Martin, 49, 50
Gay Activists Alliance, 211â12, 231
Gay Liberation Front, 202, 210â12, 223, 231, 232
“A Gay Manifesto” (Wittman), 208â9
Gay Men's Health Crisis, 228, 231
gender: in 1950s, 181â82, 196, 200, 201; in 1960s, 196, 204; in American Civil War era, 64â66, 68â71, 74â75, 82; in American Revolutionary War era, 28â32, 35â39; art and, 74â75, 138â39; Bible and, 28, 35â36, 38, 48; the body and, 74â75, 137â39, 142, 157, 196; children and, 131; citizenship and, 70â71, 134; civilization and, 44â46; in colonial era, 2â5, 13; community and, 70â72, 181â82; consumerism and, 131, 137â42; dress and, 196, 204; entertainment and, 104â6, 113â22; identity and, 132â37, 155; labor and, 88, 145â47, 148â49, 154â55, 167; LGBT movements and, 181â82; literature and, 134â37, 200, 201; in literature of the East, 48â49, 55â56; livelihood and, 72, 148â49, 154â55; military and, 155; New Deal and, 148â51; psychology and, 186â87; Puritanism and, 13; purity and, 84; race and, 90, 115, 132â37; Red Scare and, 144â48; religion and, 28, 35â36, 38, 140â42; restraint and, 84; sexology and, 95â96, 105; social purity movements and, 101; violence and, 64â66; in the West, 41â46; World War II and, 153â58, 167, 196.
See also
feminism; transgender
Gilbert, Sue, 1, 53â54
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 132, 133
Ginsberg, Allen, 200, 201
Giovanni's Room
(Baldwin), 202
Glee
, 237â38
Godey's Lady Book
, 70
The God of Vengeance
(Asch), 117
Goldman, Emma, 93, 94, 97, 143, 146, 151
Gomorrah, 61, 135
government: in 1970s, 218â24; in 1980s, 224, 225â26, 227, 230â31; censorship and, 117â18, 142â43, 145, 146, 157; children and, 148; LGBT movements and, 218â24; motherhood and, 148; New Deal and, 149â51, 153; Red Scare and, 142â48, 180; State Department, 180; Treasury Department, 149.
See also
laws; police
Graham, Sylvester, 84â85
Gran Fury collective, 232â33
Grecian Guild Quarterly
, 188
Greenwich Village, 112â13, 122â23, 171, 197, 198, 209â10
The Group
(McCarthy), 183
Guerrier, Edith, xii
Hansberry, Lorraine, 202
Harlem, 113, 121â22, 123, 126â28, 163, 172
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 54, 71
Hay, Harry, 1, 94, 179â81, 184, 229, 232, 235
Hayes Code, 119
Haymarket riot, 92â93
Hays, Matilda, 71â72
healthcare, 225â26, 227, 228â29.
See also
mental health
Hellman, Lillian, 198
Hepburn, Katharine, 196, 216
From Here to Eternity
(Jones), 168â69, 179
The Hermaphrodite
(Howe), 55â56, 98â99
heterosexuality, 90, 129â37, 140â42, 192
Heywood, Angela, 95
Hickok, Lorena, 149â50
Highsmith, Patricia, 183
hippies, 204
Hirschfeld, Magnus, 122
Hispanic Americans, 47
history, ixâx, xiâxx, 1, 11, 238â42
Hitler, Adolf, 134, 155
HIV, 225.
See also
AIDS
Holman, Libby, 121
home.
See
family; housing
homophobia, 11â12, 226
homosexuality, xvii, 1, 78, 90â91, 105.
See also
same-sex relationships
homosocial space: in American Revolutionary War era, 32â35; civilization and, 44â46; community and, 109â11; in correspondence, 33â35; correspondence and, 110; desire and, 32, 33â34; in the East, literature of, 50â51, 55â56, 58â60; Enlightenment and, 32, 39; equality and, 32; expansion and, 42â46; housing and, 109â11; interracial relationships and, 58â60; in literature, 50â51, 55â56, 58â60, 97â98; marriage and, 32â33, 45; sexology and, 150; urbanization and, 109â11; in the West, 42â46; World War II and, 157â58
Hoover, J. Edgar, 124, 143, 177, 237
Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 117
Hosmer, Harriet, 71, 74â75, 234
housing, 107â13, 153, 171, 177
Hovey, Richard, xii
Howe, Julia Ward, 55â56, 73, 98â99
Howe, Samuel Gridley, 55â56
“Howl” (Ginsberg), 200
Howl and Other Poems
(Ginsberg), 201
Hudson, Rock, 192, 193
Hull House, 108â9, 110, 183
human immunodeficiency virus, 225.
See also
AIDS
human rights, 78â79, 149, 150, 220.
See also
civil rights
Hunter, Tab, 192, 193, 194
Hutchinson, Anne, 13, 15, 235
identity: in 1950s, 179, 192, 196; in 1960s, 196; in 1970s, 221â23; abolition and, 40; in American Civil War era, 74â75; in American Revolutionary War era, 40, 41; camp and, 199; capitalism and, xvi, 83, 130; children and, 236â37; citizenship and, 134; in colonial era, 5, 10â11, 17; coming out and, 236â37; community and, 10â11, 106; consumerism and, 130â31; culture and, 130â31, 196; desire and, 97, 103; dress and, 196; economy and, 83, 130â31; expansion and, 40â41; feminism and, 213; gender and, 132â37, 155; heterosexuality and, 129â37, 192; immigration and, 40; Industrial Revolution and, 83; inversion and, 129â30; labor and, 155; language and, xviâxviii; LGBT movements and, 175, 221â23; liberty and, 41; literature and, 134â37; marginalization of, generally, xiii; national, 40â41, 74â75, 83, 129â37, 145, 156, 235, 241â42; privacy and, 130â31; race and, 40, 132â37; Red Scare and, 145; religion and, xvi, 5, 17, 134â35; reproduction and, 99; Roman Catholic Church and, 5; Roosevelt and, 132â33; same-sex relationships as, generally, 1, 105, 129â30, 175; slavery and, 40â41; social class and, 83; suffrage and, 40; theater and, 105; urbanization and, 106, 130; violence and, 40â41; war and, 40â41; World War II and, 155, 156
“I Don't Care Girl” (Eva Tanguay), 120
immigration, 40, 46â47, 82, 83, 143â44, 145
Imre
(Prime-Stevenson), 97, 103
indentured servitude, 14, 21â22, 57.
See also
slavery
individual: in American Revolutionary War era, 28; in colonial era, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21; community and, 109; equality and, 49â50, 80, 221â22, 239; liberty and, 20, 28, 82, 239; literature of the, in the East, 49â50; slavery and, 21; social purity movements and, 109; society and, 49â50
Industrial Revolution, 83
Industrial Workers of the World, 94, 146
interracial relationships, 57â62, 174, 177, 241
inversion: in 1950s, 179; heterosexuality and, 129â30; identity and, 129â30; in literature, 125â26; Red Scare and, 144; in sexology, 95â96, 114, 123; social purity movements and, 95â96; theater and, 105, 114; urbanization and, 105, 114, 123; World War II and, 163â64
The Invisible Glass
(Wahl), 168
Irving, Washington, 48â49, 104
Isherwood, Christopher, 197
Island of Tranquil Delights
(Stoddard), 58
Jackson, Andrew, 41
James, Alice, 74
James, Henry, 72, 74
James I, 6, 7
Jamestown, 5â6
Jefferson, Thomas, 26â27, 28, 31
Jewel Box Revue, 172, 197
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 74
Jews, 16, 89, 219â20
Jim Crow era, 58, 82, 165â66
Johnston, Jill, 213
John the Evangelist, 7
Jones, James, 168â69, 179
Jones, LeRoi, 201
Jones, Mary Harris “Mother,” 88
Jones, T. C., 197
Joplin, Janis, 204, 216
Joseph and His Friend
(Taylor), 67â68
journalism: in 1950s, 180, 181, 184, 188â90, 191, 192, 193, 194; in 1960s, 210â11, 213, 214â15; in 1970s, 214â15, 223; in American Civil War era, 70; community and, 124; entertainment and, 116, 117, 118â19; LGBT movements and, 214â15, 223; public sphere and, 124; social purity movements and, 87; urbanization and, 124; World War II and, 156, 176.
See also
individual publications
Judaism, 16, 89, 219â20
June, Jennie.
See
Lind, Earl
Katz, Jonathan Ned, xiv, 9, 43, 90
Kellogg, John Harvey, 85
Kennedy, John F., 177, 205, 206
Kerouac, Jack, 200
Kertbeny, Karl-Maria, xvâxvi, xvii, 78, 79, 80
The Kids Are All Right
, 237
Kiernan, James G., 90
The Killing of Sister George
, 237
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 177, 203, 206, 212
King Kong
(Cooper), 136
Kinsey, Alfred, 160, 177â79, 185, 218
Knights of the Clocks, 176â77, 179
Knock on Any Door
(Motley), 183â84
Kramer, Larry, 231
Kuchar, George, 199
Kuchar, Michael, 199
Ku Klux Klan, 145
labor: in 1990s, 236; capitalism and, 83; community and, 107, 109, 171; economy and, 83; gender and, 88, 145â47, 148â49, 154â55, 167; housing and, 107, 109; identity and, 155; immigration and, 83; Industrial Revolution and, 83; LGBT movements and, 181, 236; livelihood, 72, 148â49, 154â55, 181; movements for, 88â89, 91â93, 109, 146â47; police and, 146â47; race and, 83, 88â95, 155, 156; Red Scare and, 144, 145â47; same-sex relationships and, 91â95; social class and, 83, 88, 154; social purity movements and, 88â91; suffrage and, 88; urbanization and, 107, 109; violence and, 92â93; World War II and, 154â55, 156, 167, 171
The Ladder
, 181, 202
Lafayette, Marquis de, 34â35, 45
Lahr, Bert, 115
language: in 1960s, 209; in 1980s, 232; in American Civil War era, 1, 77, 78, 80; in colonial era, 11; historical overview of, xivâxviii; for LGBT movements, 95, 209, 232; social purity movements and, 90â91, 95â99; urbanization and, 114
Lape, Esther, 149
Last of the Mohicans
(Cooper), 58
The Last of the Wine
(Renault), 183
Lawrence v. Texas
, 236
laws: in 1970s, 218â24; in 1980s, 225â26, 227, 230â31, 240â41; in 1990s, 236; in American Civil War era, 78â82; in American Revolutionary War era, 27â28, 30; capital punishment and, 8, 9; children and, 236; in colonial era, 8â11, 13, 14â16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 27â28; community and, 123â25; crime and, xv, xvi, 123â25; cross-dressing and, 13; Enlightenment and, 27; in Europe, 78â79; expansion and, 47; family and, 236, 240; immigration and, 47; language and, xvi; LGBT movements and, 93â95, 218â24, 238â42; marriage and, 57â58, 236, 238â41; privacy and, 125; property and, 23; prostitution and, 86; public sphere and, 123â25; race and, 57â58; religion and, 8â11, 14â16, 22â23; reproduction and, 13, 57â58; in San Francisco, 47; sexual psychopath laws, 123â25, 159; slavery and, 23; social purity movements and, 86â87, 103, 123â25; sodomy and, 17, 20, 27â28, 30, 58, 182â83, 219, 230, 236; urbanization and, 117â18, 123â25; in the West, 47
Leaves of Grass
(Whitman), 1, 65â66, 66â67, 76, 80
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 48â49
Legg, W. Dorr, 176â77
Legion of Decency, 182
leisure: in 1950s, 182; in 1980s, 227, 228â29; in colonial era, 12â13; community and, 46, 111â12, 113, 171â73, 182; consumerism and, 131; friendship and, 32; LGBT movements and, 182, 217; military and, 161, 163, 164â65; public sphere and, 182; race and, 163; in San Francisco, 46, 121; urbanization and, 111â12, 113, 217; World War II and, 161, 163, 164â65, 171â73.
See also
entertainment