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UNVERG THE PAST: A GUI TO THE 10 BT GAY HISTORY BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ!
From early activism to morn stggl, dig ep to the rich history of the queer muny wh our curated list of the bt gay history books. * gay history book *
Such notable rearchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smh-Rosenberg, Jefey Weeks and John D’E illumate gay and lbian life as evolved plac as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutnary Rsia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, post-World War II San Francis—and peopl as varied as South Ain black mers, Amerin Indians, Che urtiers, Japane samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban workg women. ’ For homophile activists of the 1950s and early 1960s, that stggle had been about beg left alone by police and policians, but for those gatherg to prott Stonewall, was about “fg themselv to society as gay men and lbians.
The thors unpack queer crimal archetyp—like ‘gleeful gay killers, ’ ‘lethal lbians, ’ ‘disease sprears, ’ and;ceptive genr benrs’—to illtrate the punishment of queer exprsn, regardls of whether a crime was ever mted.
“Unspeakable documents the major phas the evolutn of the gay and lbian prs while providg a wdow to the history of the movement, om the era of McCarthyism to the ancy of the ’60s and the Stonewall Rts, om the liberaly of the ’70s to the issue of AIDS the ’80s and the ‘outg’ of the ’90s”.
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Wner of the Stonewall Book Award nonfictn The first prehensive history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Ameri, om pre-1492 to... * gay history book *
“New York Tim Notable Book of the Year and wner of a Lambda Lerary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of stggle and triumph that was stantly regnized as the most thorative and substantial work of s kd. From the makg of Wt Si Story, the morn Romeo and Juliet tale wrten and staged by four gay men, to the tastrophic era of AIDS, Charl Kaiser reunts the te history of the gay movement wh many never-before-told stori.