Long before Stonewall : histories of same-sex sexuality in early America / edited by Thomas A. Foster ; with an afterword by John D'Emilio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, Thomas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--United States--History--18th century.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--United States--History--18th century.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.Long Before Stonewall seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American berdache. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.

Contents:

Introduction : long before Stonewall / Thomas A. Foster

Warfare, homosexuality, and gender status among American Indian men in the southwest / Ramón A. Gutierrez

Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-women : gender crossing and same-sex relations in eighteenth-century northeastern Indian culture / Gunlög Fur

"Abominable sin" in colonial New Mexico : Spanish and Pueblo perceptions of same-sex sexuality / Tracy Brown

"The cry of Sodom" : discourse, intercourse, and desire in colonial New England / Richard Godbeer

Border crossings : the queer erotics of Quakerism in seventeenth-century New England / Anne G. Myles

Hermaphrodites and "same-sex" sex in early America / Elizabeth Reis

Mapping an Atlantic sexual culture : homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Clare A. Lyons

An excerpt from Surpassing the love of men / Lillian Faderman

Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio : an early American romance / Caleb Crain

The Swan of Litchfield : Sarah Pierce and the lesbian landscape poem / Lisa L. Moore

Sexual desire, crime, and punishment in the early republic / Mark E. Kann

The black body erotic and the republican body politic, 1790-1820 / John Saillant

What's sex got to do with it? marriage versus circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775-1776 / Laura Mandell

In a French position : radical pornography and homoerotic society in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond or the secret witness / Stephen Shapiro

Afterword / John D'Emilio.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814728673

0814728677

9780814728147

0814728146

9781435607293

1435607295

OCLC:

181157124