Our collections span centuries and include objects related to protest and politics, medicine and psychology, love and marriage, sports and entertainment, and more. Thus they became military cannon-fodder, participated in the commercial slaughter of the North American bison and the massacre of Native Americans, and joined in great numbers the mining rushes to … “Intense excitement among 60 persons inside,” read the New York Times coverage on Feb. 22. I have only the words of modern medicine or holy men and women to describe to me how gays and lesbians played a role in ancient Native American cultures. Its original incarnation held views similar to that of groups of the 1960s and '70s, consisting of a militant stance driving for drastic reform. This special section of BlackPast.org is dedicated to presenting the history of people of African descent who are also Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (LGBTQ). Lyons followed the exploits of “Scottish-born adventurer and noted homosexual” William Drummond Stewart, a military nobleman known for his gay adventures in the American West. It was a cold February morning, 118 years ago this month, when New York City police conducted their first recorded raid on a gay bathhouse. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. : a Documentary History. Stewart’s travels and other historical facts make for some eye-opening revelations about the queer frontier. Even using the term "Native American" in this context is exasperating, because there was no "America" in the early cultures and traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. When Oden was elected mayor of Palm Springs, California, in 2003, he made history by becoming the first openly gay African-American man elected mayor of an American … It highlights the many contributions these individuals have made to both African American history and culture and American history and culture. Meridian, 1992 - Social Science - 702 pages. December 10, 1924: The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2011; Devon Carbado and Dwight McBride, eds. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African-American Fiction, Cleis Press, 2002; David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, Macmillan, 2004 “The conduct of some of the frequenters of the establishment was questionable.” The Mattachine Society's founding in 1951 marked the nation's "first" gay rights organization prior to the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Gay American history Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Sometimes, curators and archivists collected objects for a specific reason that No_Favorite. Jonathan Katz. The society is the first gay rights organization as well as the oldest documented in America. The True History of Cowboys as Sex Slaves. LGBTQ+ history is a part of American history that the museum has been documenting since its founding, both knowingly and unknowingly. Here are 5 things you might not have known about the Wild West: The Cowboys. EMBED. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? AbeBooks.com: Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., A Documentary and Pioneering Collection of Turbulent Chronicles - A Startling New Perspective on the Nation's Past (9780690011654) by Katz, Jonathan and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 0 Reviews "This ground-breaking work is the primary sourcebook for an accurate, fascinating, historical account of American lesbians and gay men. Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA (1978) Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (1976) David Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002) Sexual Orientation america, history, …
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