Title:
A queer history of the United States for young people
Author:
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Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Physical Description:
xx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780807056127
Abstract:
Encourages young readers, of all identities, to feel pride at the accomplishments of the LGBTQ people who came before them and to use history as a guide to the future.The stories shared include those of: Thomas Morton, who celebrated same-sex love in Boston's Puritan community in the 1620s; Albert D.J. Cashier, an Irish immigrant and Civil War hero, who was born in the body of a woman but lived as a man for over a half century; Gladys Bentley, an African American blues singer who challenged cross-dressing laws in 1920s Harlem; Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s close friend, civil rights organizer, and an openly gay man; Sylvia Rivera, who along with Marsha P. Johnson, founded the first transgender political group in the United States in 1970; Harvey Milk, a community organizer and the first openly gay politician to win an election in California; Jamie Nabozny, a teen who brought national attention to the issue of LGBTQ bullying by bringing his case to the Supreme Court in the 1990s.
Contents:
Before we start, or, What is normal? -- Native peoples: different genders, different sexualities -- Thomas Morton: free love among the Puritans? -- Jemima Wilkinson: the surprising life of Publick Universal Friend -- Deborah Sampson: patriot, soldier, gender rebel -- Nineteenth-century romantic friendships: BFFs or friends with benefits? -- The mystery of Emily Dickinson: passionate attachments and independent women -- Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Charles Sumner: complicated relationships and radical social change in very proper nineteenth-century Boston -- The amazing life of Albert D.J. Cashier: transgender war hero -- Charlotte Cushman: American idol, lover of women -- Walt Whitman: poet of the people -- Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown: a nineteenth-century love story -- The radical Victoria Woodhull: first woman to run for president -- Jane Addams: the mother of social work -- Julian Eltinge: the most famous cross-dresser in America -- Marie Equi: fighting for women, workers, peace, and justice for all -- Gladys Bentley: blues-singing bulldagger -- World War II: the war that started LGBTQ politics -- Harry Hay: how his society of fools started a revolution -- Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin: climbing the ladder of freedom and justice -- Pauli Murray: "You must remember that truth is our only sword" -- Bayard Rustin: a life of activism -- Carl Wittman: radical movements, political organizing, and country dance -- Rita Mae Brown: the lavender menace writes her way to freedom -- Gloria Anzaldúa: a life between borders -- Sylvester and Anita Bryant: marching to two very different drummers -- Robert Hillsborough and Harvey Milk: struggle and violence, grief and rage -- Essex Hemphill: the power of blackness -- Kiyoshi Kuromiya: man of many movements -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres: art in the face of death -- Jamie Nabozny: gay teen hero -- Jack Baker and Michael McConnell: it started in a barber shop -- Sylvia Rivera: a life in the streets and a guiding star -- Coming out or staying in: new queer ways of living in the world today -- Young people today: the future of queer history.
Language:
English
