Read A Queer History of the United States Online
Authors: Michael Bronski
Tags: #General, #History, #Social Science, #Sociology, #United States, #Lesbian Studies, #Gay Studies
population: of Boston, 19, 106â7; of California, 46â47; of Chicago, 106â7; in colonial era, 19, 21, 22; community and, 106â7; eugenics and, 133; expansion and, 41, 46â47; of New York City, 19; of Philadelphia, 19; reproduction and, 133; of San Francisco, 46â47; slavery and, 21, 22; urbanization and, 105â6, 106â7, 129.
See also
urbanization
pornography, 214.
See also
obscenity
Port Huron Statement, 206, 208
Presley, Elvis, 194â95
Prime-Stevenson, Edward, 97, 99, 103
privacy: in 1960s, 209; in American Revolutionary War era, 39; art and, 126â28; automobiles and, 130â31; citizenship and, 39; in colonial era, 9â10, 18; community and, 47â48, 112, 122â28; culture and, 130â31; identity and, 130â31; laws and, 125; LGBT movements and, 209; literature and, 50, 125â26; marginalization and, 127â28; race and, 112, 126â28; in San Francisco, 47â48; segregation and, 112; urbanization and, 122â28; World War II and, 152, 156â57.
See also
liberty
A Problem in Greek Ethics
(Symonds), 80
A Problem in Modern Ethics
(Symonds), 80
Production Code, 119, 197
Progressive Era, 82, 132â33, 196
Proposition 6, 220â21
Proposition 8, 239
prostitution, 16, 84, 86, 104, 227.
See also
brothels
Protestantism, xvi, 5, 7â8, 117â18, 119, 219â20.
See also
Puritanism; Quakers
psychiatry, 158â59, 163â64, 166â67, 186, 218.
See also
psychology
psychology, 96, 164â65, 184â87, 190â91, 191â92, 217â18.
See also
psychiatry
Psychology for the Fighting Man
, 164â65
public sphere: in 1950s, 182; in 1960s, 209; African Americans and, 126â28; American Revolutionary War era and, 39; art and, 126â28; coming out and, 209; community and, 47â48, 112, 122â28, 182; consumerism and, 139; crime and, 123â25; entertainment, 182; journalism and, 124; laws and, 123â25; leisure and, 182; LGBT movements and, 182, 209; literature and, 50, 125â26; marginalization and, 127â28; race and, 112, 126â28; in San Francisco, 47â48; segregation and, 112; sexology and, 123; social purity movements and, 123â25; urbanization and, 122â28; World War II and, 152, 156â57
pulps, 187â88, 189
Puritanism, 6â18, 19, 20, 28, 85
purity, 16â18, 84, 226
Quakers, 7, 12â13, 15, 19â20
Quatrefoil
(Barr), 168, 183
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
, xvii, 237
queer movements.
See
LGBT movements
Queer Nation, xvii, 232
race: in 1950s, 177, 201, 202â3; in 1960s, 177, 198â99, 203, 206; in 1970s, 216; alcohol and, 89â90; art and, 76â77; the body and, 57â58, 76â77; capitalism and, 83, 212; citizenship and, 127, 134; civilization and, 57; in colonial era, 21; community and, 112â13, 126â28, 177; conservative movements and, 221; desire and, 24, 25, 57, 58â62; in the East, literature of, 51; economy and, 83; education and, 89; entertainment and, 113, 115, 163, 198â99; eugenics, 132â33, 144; gender and, 90, 115, 132â37; heterosexuality and, 132â37; housing and, 108, 112â13, 177; identity and, 40, 132â37; immigration and, 83; Industrial Revolution and, 83; interracial relationships, 57â62, 174, 177, 241; labor and, 83, 88â95, 155, 156; laws and, 57â58; leisure and, 163; LGBT movements and, 202, 216; liberty and, 57; literature and, 57, 58â62, 127, 134â37, 169, 201, 202â3; marginalization and, 173â74; marriage and, 57â58, 174; military and, 153â54, 165â66; nature and, 51, 62; New York City and, 174â75; privacy and, 112, 126â28; public sphere and, 112, 126â28; Red Scare and, 143â44, 145; reproduction and, 57â58, 133; same-sex relationships and, 56â62; sexuality and, 57â62, 89â91; slavery and, 21; social purity movements and, 89â90, 100, 102â3; suffrage and, 89; urbanization and, 112â13, 173â75; violence and, 64â65, 82, 89â90, 91, 135â36, 173â74, 206; World War II and, 153â54, 155, 156, 163, 165â66, 169, 173â75.
See also
individual races
Radicalesbians, 202, 213
Ray, Nicholas, 191, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 162, 223, 230â31
rebel image, 190â95
Rebel Without a Cause
, 191â92, 193, 223
Red Scare, 142â48, 180
religion: in 1970s, 223â24; in 1980s, 226â27, 234â35; in American Civil War era, 63â64, 82; in American Revolutionary War era, 26â27, 35â36, 38, 64; art and, 75; the body and, 142; capital punishment and, 15; censorship and, 117â18, 119; in colonial era, 6, 7â8, 13, 20, 22â23; consumerism and, 140â42; education and, 101â2, 134â35; Enlightenment and, 26â27, 64; entertainment and, 117â18, 119; gender and, 28, 35â36, 38, 140â42; heterosexuality and, 140â42; identity and, xvi, 5, 17, 134â35; laws and, 8â11, 14â16, 22â23; LGBT movements and, 219â20, 221, 223â24; liberty and, 10, 13, 15, 20; persecuting society and, 64; Puritanism and, 7â8, 13; sin in, xvi, 11, 101, 135; slavery and, 22â23, 64; sodomy and, 26; and state, separation of, 26; transcendentalism and, 64.
See also
individual religions and sects
Renault, Mary, 183
reproduction: in 1960s, 206â7; birth control for, 86, 99, 100, 133, 147, 206â7; Christianity and, 85; in colonial era, 13; community and, 106; crime and, 91; eugenics and, 133; family and, 106; identity and, 99; laws and, 13, 57â58; LGBT movements and, 207; marriage and, 33, 57â58; masturbation and, 100; population and, 133; race and, 57â58, 133; social purity movements and, 91, 100; sodomy and, 8; World War II and, 170
Republican National Convention (1960), 177
Revolutionary era.
See
American Revolutionary War era
Rivera, Sylvia, 211
The Roaring Girl
(Middleton and Dekker), 6
Robertson, Pat, 221
rock and roll, 194â95, 204
Roman Catholic Church: AIDS and, 234â35; censorship and, 117â18, 119; in colonial era, 14; cross-dressing and, 6; entertainment and, 117â18, 119; identity and, 5; laws and, xv; LGBT movements and, 219â20; liberty and, 15; Protestantism and, 7â8
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 149â50, 154, 173, 235
Roosevelt, Theodore, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 139
Rubin, Gayle, 214, 227, 230
Rustin, Bayard, xii, 203, 235
safe sex, 228, 229â30, 233, 234â35
Salem witch trials, 20
Salome
(Wilde), 116
same-sex relationships: in 1950s, 177â79, 193â94; in 1970s, 216, 217â18, 222â23; in 1980s, 224â28; in American Civil War era, 67â68, 70â74, 77â82; in American Revolutionary War era, 32â35, 36; consumerism and, 129â30; culture for, 179â80, 182â83, 197â201, 232, 236â38; in the East, literature of, 49â56, 58â62; economy and, 129â30; in Elizabethan era, 6â7; entertainment and, 118, 120â22; in Europe, 78â79; expansion and, 43â46, 48â56, 58â62; identity and, generally, 1, 129â30, 175; interracial relationships and, 57â62; as irrelevant, 181; labor and, 91â95; language for, xviâxvii, 1, 77, 78, 80, 90â91, 95â99, 114; laws and, 18, 78â82; military and, 153â54, 155, 157â63, 164â67; as natural, xv, xvi, 78â79, 94, 164, 218; New Deal and, 149â51, 153; race and, 56â62; Red Scare and, 145â47; in the West, 43â46; World War II and, 153, 157â67, 167â70.
See also
desire; homosocial space
Sampson, Deborah, 1, 36â37, 38â39
Sandow, Eugen, 137
San Francisco: AIDS in, 227, 228, 229; community and, 46â48, 171; community in, 184, 216; culture in, 199; economy in, 47â48; expansion and, 46â48; housing in, 107; immigration in, 46â47; laws in, 47, 227; leisure in, 121, 227; LGBT movements and, 209, 224; population of, 46â47; social class in, 47â48; theater in, 198; urbanization and, 121; violence in, 47, 48, 209, 224; in World War II, 163
Sanger, Margaret, 100, 146
Sargent, John Singer, 76â77
Satter, Beryl, 84, 87, 132â33
Save Our Children, 219â20, 221, 222â23
Schulman, Sarah, 226, 228
science: in American Civil War era, 56, 78â79; citizenship and, 78â79; in colonial era, 26; in Kinsey Report, 160, 177â79; sexology, 78, 95â99, 105, 114, 115â16, 123, 126, 150
Second Great Awakening, 63â64, 84
segregation, 92, 93, 108, 112â13, 154
separation of church and state, 26
settlement houses, 108â11
Seutonius, xv, xvi, xviii
sexology, 78; community and, 114, 123; desire and, 95â99; entertainment and, 115â16; friendship and, 150; gender in, 95â96, 105; inversion in, 114, 123; language and, 95â99; literature and, 126; morality and, 100â102; public sphere and, 123; social purity movements and, 100â103; suffrage and, 96; urbanization and, 100â101
“Sexual Crimes” (Chaddock), 96â97, 103
sexual deviance.
See
deviance
sexuality: in American Revolutionary War era, 27â28; civilization and, 25; in colonial era, 2â5, 8â18, 23â25; in the East, literature of, 48â56; in Elizabethan era, 6â8; Enlightenment and, 27â28; entertainment and, 104â6, 113â22; expansion and, 41â46; as identity, generally, xviii; indentured servitude and, 57; labor and, 91â95; liberty and, 20, 27â28, 82, 84; of Native Americans, 2â5, 23â24, 24â25, 57; race and, 57â62, 89â91; restraint and, 84, 100; slavery and, 23â24, 57; suffrage and, 84; in the West, 41â46.
See also
desire
the sexual psychopath, 123â25, 159
Shively, Charley, 35, 65
Shulman, Irving, 190, 191
Shurtliff, Robert.
See
Sampson, Deborah
Sinatra, Frank, 192
Six-Horse Charley, 42
slavery: abolition of, 20, 23, 40, 64, 82, 84, 87; in American Civil War era, 22, 63, 64; in American Revolutionary War era, 29; capitalism and, 22; citizenship and, 21, 23; in colonial era, 13, 20, 21â25; equality and, 21; fantasies and, 24; feminism and, 33; hypersexuality and, 24; identity and, 40â41; individual and, 21; laws and, 23; liberty and, 21, 57, 63; literature on, 57; marginalization and, 23â25; morality and, 23â24; othering and, 23â25; persecuting society and, 21â25; population and, 21, 22; property and, 21, 23; race and, 21; rape and, 25; religion and, 22â23, 64; sexuality and, 23â24, 57; violence and, 24, 40â41.
See also
indentured servitude
Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 55, 98â99
slumming, 121â22
Smith, Jack, 199
Snell, Hannah, 37
social class, 47â48, 77, 83, 88, 154, 177
social purity movements: censorship and, 86, 95; citizenship and, 102â3; civil rights and, 91â93; community and, 111â12, 123â25; conservative movements and, 222, 239â40; crime and, 90â91, 123â25; desire and, 84, 87, 89, 95â99, 103, 111; education and, 100â102; family and, 100; fantasies and, 104; film and, 87; gender and, 101; individual and, 109; inversion and, 95â96; labor and, 88â91; language and, 90â91, 95â99; laws and, 86â87, 103, 123â25; liberty and, xix, 84, 85â86, 102â3; literature of, 100â102; marriage and, 86, 87, 242; masturbation and, 98, 100, 101, 103, 135; morality and, 84, 85â87, 100â102; motherhood and, 100; pleasure and, 88, 94, 99â100, 136; police and, 92; in Progressive Era, 132; public sphere and, 123â25; race and, 89â90, 100, 102â3; Red Scare and, 143, 144; reproduction and, 100; restraint and, 84, 100; sexology and, 100â103; suffrage and, 102â3; theater and, 104; urbanization and, 83â87, 100â101, 123â25; violence and, 84, 136.
See also
persecuting society
society: the body and, 17; in colonial era, 12â18, 20â25; deviance and, 15â16; in the East, literature of, 49â50; equality and, 49â50; individual and, 49â50; laws and, 17; liberty and, 16, 20; persecuting society, 16â18, 21â25, 39, 64, 75, 82, 150â51; power and, 16â18; Puritanism and, 12â18; sodomy and, 17.
See also
community; social purity movements
sodomites, xvi, 16
sodomy: in 1970s, 219; in American Revolutionary War era, 28, 30; as bestial, 14; capital punishment and, 20; in colonial era, 4, 10â11, 14, 28; Enlightenment and, 27; laws and, 17, 20, 27â28, 30, 58, 182â83, 219, 230, 236; LGBT movements and, 219; meaning of, generally, 17; military and, 158, 165; Native Americans and, 4; religion and, 26; reproduction and, 8; society and, 17; as unnatural, 25; World War II and, 158, 165
Some Like It Hot
, 197â98
“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 66â67, 76
South-Sea Idyls
(Stoddard), 58, 60, 61, 62, 67
Spanish-American War, 63, 132, 138
speech.
See
censorship; language