Queer public history : essays on scholarly activism / Marc Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--United States--History--20th century.

Gay people.

Public history--United States.

Public history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

Over 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 in queer public history. A manifesto for renewed partnerships between academic and community-based historians, strengthened linkages between queer public history and LGBT scholarly activism, and increased public support for historical research on gender and sexuality, this anthology reconsiders and reimagines the past, present, and future of queer public history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s

Chapter 1 Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide

Chapter 2 Memories of the 1987 March on Washington

Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest

Chapter 3 Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers

Chapter 4 Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market

Chapter 5 Post-Tenure Lavender Blues

Chapter 6 Political History and the History of Sexuality

Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism

Chapter 7 Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA

Chapter 8 Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves

Chapter 9 Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In

Chapter 10 Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia

Chapter 11 Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting

Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions

Chapter 12 Monica, Bill, History, and Sex

Chapter 13 In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush

Chapter 14 In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Chapter 15 From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order

Chapter 16 “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina”

Part Five. Queer Immigration

Chapter 17 Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003)

Chapter 18 The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution

Chapter 19 Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump

Chapter 20 Defectives of the World, Unite!

Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court

Chapter 21 Queer Eye for the FBI

Chapter 22 Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years

Chapter 23 Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage

Chapter 24 Five Myths about Roe v. Wade

Chapter 25 Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy

Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History

Chapter 26 Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project

Chapter 27 U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit

Chapter 28 “Black Lesbian in White America” Interviewing Anita Cornwell

Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity

Chapter 29 Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution

Chapter 30 Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969

Chapter 31 A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein

Chapter 32 Stonewall and Queens

Chapter 33 Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520973039

0520973038

OCLC:

1280407260