Gay Amerin History by Jonathan Ned Katz | Open Library

Contents:

• GAY AMERIN HISTORY
• GAY AMERIN HISTORY / JONATHAN KATZ
• GAY AMERIN HISTORY: LBIANS AND GAY MEN THE U.S.A.
• LBIAN HISTORI AND FUTUR: “GAY AMERIN HISTORY @ 40”
• GAY AMERIN HISTORY
• JONATHAN KATZ DISCS HIS BOOK "GAY AMERIN HISTORY"

GAY AMERIN HISTORY

A llectn of documents provis a ntuo chronicle of homosexualy Ameri, om lonial tim to the prent, and of the persecutn of gay mal and lbians throughout Amerin history. California's olst and most wily heard gams rad show tonight through pants foc on Jonathan Katz thor of gay Amerin history. When simply workg livg and lovg homosexuals have been nmned to visibily the prent documents of trouble dite that homosexuals like heterosexuals have sometim ma new 's of themselv.

But unlike heterosexuals gay people have been burned by a pernic myth equatg homosexualy per se wh s most negative maniftatns. The documents of homosexuals trouble are those which have fed anti homosexual myth particular homosexuals and difficulty have been taken to reprent homosexuals general.

Yet for history to ignore the plight of gay people trouble would be to ignore what n now be seen as a major aspect of homosexual opprsn.

GAY AMERIN HISTORY / JONATHAN KATZ

People had party background the learship there the first early stag and there the wch hunt perd you have hts that McCarthy was gay and that other people very closely associated wh him were gay which I'm que sure of. She 's que ironic 's she says that she had never had any homosexual acts experience or known any homosexuals but she knew that she was one and had gone for psychiatric or.

gay men by psychiatrists and psychologists a history of horrors sexual surgery stratn crturs removal ovary removal are discsed I haven't been able to actually document them. This is a re Brish report datg to 1964 a versn treatment summarized simply by Weberg unveilg the biblgraphy on homosexualy. The particular form of aversn therapy volv creatn of noise by means of an emetic a chemil acpanied by talkg about his homosexualy.

GAY AMERIN HISTORY: LBIANS AND GAY MEN THE U.S.A.

I started out wh a medil journal article datg to eighteen eighty three I thk is or at 84 's the first reference to lbian ism a medil journal and and medil journal turned out to be ironilly wonrful source of attus towards homosexualy was one place where they were actually wrg about early and directly. Which is an observatn of homosexualy one among one particular tribe and the last document the book go to 1976 and the report of the formatn San Francis of the first group of Native Amerin gay Native Amerins.

Native Amerins gay Amerins 15 28 to 1976 troductn the existence of homosexualy among the people who origally habed the Uned Stat will no doubt hold a certa special fascatn for those lbians and gay men who are today begng to reposss the natnal and world history of their people part of their stggle for social change and to w ntrol over their own liv. civilizatn clud the attempt by the nquerors to elimate var tradnal forms of Indian homosexualy as part of their attempt to stroy that native culture which might fuel ristance a form of cultural genoci volvg both Native Amerins and to gay people. The documents rerd their areas forms of homosexualy among different trib and material have to be worked on and analyzed I thk.

LBIAN HISTORI AND FUTUR: “GAY AMERIN HISTORY @ 40”

Often the observatns by ary men missnari some explorers doctors say much more about the feelgs of the people themselv the observer than they do about the particular form of native homosexualy beg discsed 1889 a medil doctor wr of the. History n be fun you see the bear dash the cross-drsg Native Amerin and very often homosexual and the most often mented upon variety of native amerin homosexualy.

It would be as if some stupid anthropologist me to Greenwich Village where I live and observ that you know all of the most obv Queens and said you know that was open homosexualy New York Cy. There also 's tertg that 1964 one magaze om Los Angel was one of the few plac to rry an terview somebody actually thought of talkg to a Native Amerin homosexual that oh brilliant new ia.

You were listeng to Free time gams rad tonight Jonathan Katz discs and reads excerpts om his new book gay Amerin history lbians and gay men the USA.

GAY AMERIN HISTORY

Amerin gay history clus a long and ltle known tradn of ristance this ristance has taken varied forms om the isolated acts of lone dividuals om the wrg of letters poems says books fendg homosexualy or novels prentg homosexuals as human begs to the nscly polil an anizg of a group uned for actn agast anti homosexual bigots and stutnalized persecutn. A history gog back far beyond the Stonewall Rebelln a Jew not thoand sixty ne when lbians and gay men New York actively fought police harassment. I trace the world Whman's fluence and direct important fluence on the too early English homo sexual emancipatn pneers Edward rpenter and John Addgton Symonds men who began the eighteen ne days to wre homosexual propaganda pamphlets and England then distribute them first privately among their iends and tellg them to be reful and don't let them get to the wrong hands and then actually publishg them.

Carpenter 1894 published his first homosexual pamphlet lled home agenda love that was his word for homosexualy and rpenter pecially terts me he was socialist and a femist and a gay liberatnist.

And that person happened to have been a lover of someone who had been volved the first known gay liberatn anizatn Ameri the Chigo Society for Human Rights.

JONATHAN KATZ DISCS HIS BOOK "GAY AMERIN HISTORY"

And the letters that he wrote to one he says we had a charter om the state of Illois and we put out a newspaper lled Freedom iendship and eedom which was and the name of the anizatn and the paper were both named after German the homosexual emancipatn groups which had been ntact wh Germany durg World War One or before. the German how the sexual emancipatn movement and the and the earlit attempt to form a gay group the Uned Stat they were all arrted by the way and put jail and Gerber gave up the attempt. He got the ia for a gay anizatn the first ia me to him at a gay party Los Angel at the Universy of Southern California Augt 1948.