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Summary
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to Kinsey's modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Audre Lorde.
Dive deep into the pages of The LGBTQ + History book to discover:
- Thought-provoking graphics and flow charts demystify the central concepts behind key moments in LGBTQ+ history, from eromenos and erastes in the Ancient World to political lesbianism.
- Features insightful quotes from leading historians, philosophers, cultural commentators, economists, anthropologists, sociologists, activists, and politicians.
- Includes biography boxes and directory entries on the lives of important but lesser-known individuals, alongside well-known names including Sappho, Oscar Wilde, Anne Lister, Harvey Milk, and Marsha P. Johnson.
- Global in scope with a localizable directory.
The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first gender affirmation surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian "Night Police" to the 20th century "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones - the secret language of polari, Black and Latine ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community - and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century "molly houses" to modern "gaybourhoods".
The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the long, proud - and often hidden - history of LGBTQ+ people, cultures, and places from around the world.
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Booklist Review
Part of DK's Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The LGBTQ+ History Book covers eras from the earliest recorded history to the Renaissance to the Jazz Age to the present day. Using bold layouts rich with illustrations, entries run up to eight pages in length and cover the earliest evidence for LGBTQ+ people around 2400 BCE, same-sex narratives in Urdu poetry, the first gender-affirmation surgeries in the early twentieth century, Stonewall, camp, pronouns and neopronouns, and much more. The coverage is international in scope, addressing gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, China, and Rome; nonbinary and intersex gender identity in Māori, Thai, and Indigenous American cultures; and the effects of colonialism in Latin America, India, and Africa. An introduction acknowledges the challenges of studying LGBTQ+ history, and the book ends with a directory of key people, a glossary, and an index. Engagingly written and energetically designed, The LGBTQ+ History Book will find an eager audience in casual browsers and students looking to start a research project.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 12 |
| Early Explorations | |
| When heroes love The earliest evidence for LGBTQ+ people | 18 |
| Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles Gender and sexuality in ancient Greece | 20 |
| You whom of all women I most desire Sappho of Lesbos | 24 |
| The passion of the cut sleeve Favorites in Han China | 28 |
| Every woman's man and every man's woman Gender and sexuality in ancient Rome | 30 |
| Who does what, where, when, and why, who knows? The Kama Sutra | 36 |
| The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire The early Christian Church | 38 |
| This type of love rebels against nature Sodomy and the medieval Catholic Church | 42 |
| I die of love for him The Abbasid Caliphate | 46 |
| I want to be like nature made me Intersex rights | 48 |
| Renaissance and Retribution | |
| Infinite beauty Renaissance Italy | 58 |
| A thousand naughty conceits and lusty words Homoeroticism and the French Renaissance | 60 |
| A nightingale among the beautiful Ottoman gender and sexuality | 62 |
| The abominable vice will be eliminated The Spanish Inquisition | 64 |
| Christian guilt is still very strong Colonial Latin America | 66 |
| Cruel, indecent, and ridiculous The criminalization of sodomy | 68 |
| You have me all on fire Pornography | 72 |
| My joy, my crown, my friend! Early modern lesbianism | 74 |
| O thou, my lovely boy Male-male love poetry | 80 |
| My clerk judged they were both women AFAB cross-dressers and "female husbands" | 82 |
| The Great Mirror of Male Love Male love in Edo Japan | 84 |
| Subcultures and Publicity | |
| Making what use I please of my own body Molly houses | 90 |
| Conversing with my beloved Erotic friendship in America and Europe | 92 |
| Making love with one's own likeness Same-sex narratives in Urdu poetry | 96 |
| Finding yourself in the bosom of your kind Sapphism | 98 |
| Wearing the man's attire and putting on the sword AFAB people in combat | 99 |
| Far from outraging Nature, we serve her Revolutionary France | 100 |
| I love, and only love, the fairer sex The diaries of Anne Lister | 102 |
| This scandalous tumult Changing Ottoman society | 104 |
| An entirely different law of nature Defining "homosexual" and "heterosexual" | 106 |
| They say it's the soul which is hijra Hijras and British colonialism | 108 |
| Not seeking men, but seeking each other Belle Époque Paris | 110 |
| We're all born naked and the rest is drag Drag | 112 |
| Two ladies, living sweetly and devotedly together Boston marriages | 118 |
| Simultaneously a beautiful woman and a potent man Gender nonconformity and colonial constraints in Africa | 120 |
| That which appears in nature is natural First recognition of asexuality | 122 |
| The Love that Dare not speak its Name The trial of Oscar Wilde | 124 |
| I could express myself better dressed as a boy Male impersonators | 126 |
| Bona to vada your dolly old eek! The secret language of Polari | 127 |
| Sexology and Sexual Identities | |
| Homosexuality is no vice, no degradation Sexology and psychoanalysis | 132 |
| Visions of transformation Gender transgression in modern China | 134 |
| Nature made a mistake, which I have corrected The first gender affirmation surgeries | 136 |
| To show what it means to be gay LGBTQ+ films | 142 |
| A powerfully queer place The first gay village | 146 |
| Surely as gay as it was Black The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age | 148 |
| You're more than just neither, honey Butch and femme | 152 |
| We who wore the pink triangle Persecution during the Holocaust | 156 |
| I am a realist and not an Obscene writer Ismat Chughtai's Obscenity trial | 162 |
| We do not speak of love. Our faces scream of it The Beat Generation | 163 |
| Not an all-or-none proposition Kinsey's research on sexology | 164 |
| It was a witch hunt The Lavender Scare | 166 |
| A love of our own kind Female writers' rejection of labels | 168 |
| I am with you, I am like you Brazilian Pajubá | 169 |
| Gay is good Toward Gay Liberation | 170 |
| Democracy with repression is not democracy Latin American LGBTQ+ movements | 178 |
| Queer parody Camp | 180 |
| Screaming Queens The Compton's Cafeteria Riot | 182 |
| Not the law's business The decriminalization of same-sex acts | 184 |
| Protests, Pride, and Coalition | |
| I'm gay and I'm proud The Stonewall Uprising | 190 |
| Equally valid, equally justified, equally beautiful Transgender rights | 196 |
| You have nothing to lose but your hang-ups CAMP Australia and the Sydney Mardi Gras | 204 |
| Feminism is the theory; lesbianism is the practice Political lesbianism | 206 |
| To be free, to come out, to play sports LGBTQ+ athletes come out | 208 |
| I am stronger for all my identities Black lesbian feminism | 210 |
| Whatever you want to be, you be The spread of ball culture | 214 |
| One small step for genkind Pronouns and neopronouns | 216 |
| Self-contained sexuality The Asexual Manifesto | 218 |
| Depathologizing homosexuality Removal of homosexuality from the DSM | 219 |
| Thailand has three genders Kathoey in Thailand | 220 |
| Homosexuality began to speak on its own behalf Foucault's History of Sexuality | 222 |
| Our Sexuality is all of the colors The creation of the Pride flag | 224 |
| Let that bullet destroy every closet door The assassination of Harvey Milk | 226 |
| We're Just another family LGBTQ+ parenting | 228 |
| Lesbians are not women "The Straight Mind" | 232 |
| Heterosexuality is a political institution Compulsory heterosexuality | 233 |
| We did it for the underground The birth of queer punk | 234 |
| Together I am everything I am Maori gender and sexuality | 236 |
| A plague that was allowed to happen The AIDS epidemic | 238 |
| Solidarity in struggle Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners | 242 |
| Silence = Death AIDS activism | 244 |
| The crossroads of being Anzaldúa's Borderlands | 246 |
| Legalized prejudice Section 28 | 248 |
| Out in the Open | |
| We await the day when we can lift the clouds LGBTG+ activism in Asia | 254 |
| We're here! We're queer! Get used to it Reclaiming the term "queer" | 256 |
| It is the spirit that is your gender Indigenous American Two-Spirit people | 258 |
| A whole, fluid identity Bisexuality | 262 |
| Nobody really is a gender from the start Butler's Gender Trouble | 266 |
| Sexuality constituted as secrecy Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet | 268 |
| Fear of a queer planet Heteronormativity | 270 |
| To lie in order to serve Don't Ask, Don't Tell | 272 |
| Tomboys and wives Chinese lala communities | 276 |
| It was not God that rejected me LGBTQ+ Muslims | 278 |
| Not a puzzle with a missing piece The aromantic and asexual spectrum | 280 |
| His legacy has inspired us to erase hate The Murder of Matthew Shepard | 284 |
| I don't need to be fixed Conversion therapy is banned | 286 |
| Love wins Marriage equality | 288 |
| I like the wine, not the label Pansexuality | 294 |
| A queer psychology of affect Affect theory | 296 |
| We learned to be quare, Black, and proud Queer of color theory | 297 |
| Disability is queer, queerer than queer Queer disability studies | 298 |
| The violence of liberalism Homonationalism | 302 |
| I see myself as my own surrogate Transgender pregnancy and reproductive health care | 304 |
| We need our oxygen to breathe The LGBTQ+ struggle in modern Africa | 306 |
| Where 49 lives were taken, 49 legacies began The Pulse shooting | 308 |
| Safe, fair, and science-based Laws lifted against MSM donating blood | 310 |
| Directory | 312 |
| Glossary | 324 |
| Index | 327 |
| Quote Attributions | 335 |
| Acknowledgments | 336 |