Queer America: A GLBT History of the United States

As I wrote Queer America over the past few years my aim was to offer a thorough yet concise one-volume source for students, teachers, and anyone else seeking to learn something about the glbtq experience in the United States over the past one hundred years.

The need for the book grew out of my own teaching: some fifteen years earlier I had introduced the course “Gay American History” to the Alfred University curriculum and at first found it difficult to put together a reading list. Since then, as we know, the field of glbtq history has exploded, with hundreds of wonderful studies of individuals and movements, approaches and arguments, constantly causing me to reconsider the content and method of my course and my research.

However, two themes with which I began teaching remain the same and, if anything, have been magnified by writing the book: the sheer magnitude of our history–there is so much of it–and that the glbtq past, far from being “yet another history” is part and parcel of American history.

Read more at glbtq.com.