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.
By:
Marc Stein
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520304314
ISBN 10: 0520304314
Pages: 354
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Part One. Queer Memories of the 1980s 1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide 2. Memories of the 1987 March on Washington Part Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest 3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers 4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market 5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues 6. Political History and the History of Sexuality Part Three. Histories of Queer Activism 7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street, Philadelphia, USA 8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In 10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia 11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting Part Four. Queer Historical Interventions 12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex 13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush 14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name 15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order 16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina” Part Five. Queer Immigration 17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003) 18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution 19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump 20. Defectives of the World, Unite! Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court 21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years 23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage 24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony Kennedy Part Seven. Exhibiting Queer History 26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project 27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit 28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita Cornwell Part Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity 29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution 30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein 32. Stonewall and Queens 33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
Marc Stein, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University, is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement, and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History.
Reviews for Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism
"""Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it."" * Public Historian *"
