Queer Public History

Marc Stein, the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University, is the author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement, and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History.

"Queer Public History is a uniquely personal look into how public history has been formed in the LGBTQ+ community. The linkages between public and academic, between personal and political, and their ties to activism are laid out for the reader to explore in detail. Stein’s contribution is both to public history and to LGBTQ+ history and highlights how, in his case, they cannot be understood separately and are the better for it."

• ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart One. Queer Memories of the 1980s1. Jonathan Ned Katz Murdered Me: History and Suicide2. Memories of the 1987 March on WashingtonPart Two. Discipline, Punish, and Protest3. Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers4. Crossing Borders: Memories, Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares of the History Job Market5. Post-Tenure Lavender Blues6. Political History and the History of SexualityPart Three. Histories of Queer Activism7. Coming Out and Going Public: A History of Lesbians and Gay Men Taking to Queer Street,Philadelphia, USA8. Approaching Stonewall from the City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves 9. Recalling Dewey’s Sit-In10. Fifty Years of LGBT Movement Activism in Philadelphia11. Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and CountingPart Four. Queer Historical Interventions12. Monica, Bill, History, and Sex13. In My Wildest Dreams: Advice for George Bush14. In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name15. From the Glorious Strike to Obama’s New Executive Order16. “In My Mind I’m (Not) Going to Carolina”Part Five. Queer Immigration17. Alienated Affections: Remembering Clive Michael Boutilier (1933–2003)18. The Supreme Court’s Sexual Counter-Revolution19. Immigration Is a Queer Issue: From Fleuti to Trump20. Defectives of the World, Unite!Part Six. Sex, Law, and the Supreme Court21. Queer Eye for the FBI 22. Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years23. Justice Kennedy and the Future of Same-Sex Marriage24. Five Myths about Roe v. Wade 25. Refreshing Abominations: An Open Letter to Anthony KennedyPart Seven. Exhibiting Queer History26. Introduction to the Philadelphia LGBT History Project27. U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit28. “Black Lesbian in White America”: Interviewing Anita CornwellPart Eight. Stonewall, Popularity, and Publicity29. Toward a Theory of the Stonewall Revolution30. Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969 31. A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein32. Stonewall and Queens33. Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex