A Queer History of the United States

Not to be confused with LGBT history in the United States.

A Queer History of the United States

Author	Michael Bronski
Language	English
Subject	LGBT history in the United States
Published	May 10, 2011 (Beacon Press)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	287
Awards	Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award[1]
ISBN	978-0-8070-4439-1
OCLC	662402765
Dewey Decimal	306.76/60973
LC Class	HQ76.3.U5 B696 2011

A Queer History of the United States is a concise history of LGBTQ people in US society.^[2] It describes ways in which queer people have influenced the evolution of the United States, and how the culture of the United States has affected them.^[3][4]

A Queer History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in 2011. It was recognized with a Stonewall Book Award in 2012.^[1][4] The author, Michael Bronski, is a professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, and professor of Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.^[5]

Chapters

1. The Persecuting Society
2. Sexually Ambiguous Revolutions
3. Imagining a Queer America
4. A Democracy of Death and Art
5. A Dangerous Purity
6. Life on the Stage, Life in the City
7. Production and Marketing of Gender
8. Sex in the Trenches
9. Visible Communities, Invisible Lives
10. Revolt, Backlash, Resistance

See also

• Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976)
• Transgender History (2008)
• Real Queer America (2019)
• LGBT history in the United States
• History of the United States
• 2011 in literature

References

1. "Stonewall Book Awards List § 2012". ALA.org. American Library Association. September 9, 2009. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
2. Hari, Johann (May 23, 2011). "How Gays Helped Make and Remake America". Slate. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
3. Liebetrau, Eric (May 17, 2011). "Reassessing 500 years of American history: A scholarly look at the LGBT experience". Boston.com. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
4. Barber, Bonnie (February 23, 2012). "Professor Michael Bronski Wins Prestigious Stonewall Book Award". Dartmouth Now. Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
5. "Michael Bronski". Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Harvard University. Retrieved June 22, 2016.

Further reading

• Wexelbaum, Rachel (June 20, 2011). "'A Queer History of the United States' by Michael Bronski and 'Queer America: A People's LGBT History of the United States' by Vicki L. Eaklor". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
• Ireland, Doug (October 13, 2011). "Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States — review". Doug Ireland. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
• Reed, Jennifer (February 2012). "A Queer History of the United States, by Michael Bronski" (PDF). The History Teacher. 45 (2). The Society for History Education: 297–98. ISSN 0018-2745. Retrieved June 22, 2016.