American Queer, Now And Then

by Shneer,David

• ISBN13: 9781594511721
• ISBN10: 1594511721
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-03-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Contrasting queer life today and in years past, this landmark book brings together autobiographies, poetry, film studies, maps, documents, laws, and other texts to explore the meaning and practice of the word "queer". By this Shneer and Aviv mean: queer as both a form of social violence and a call to political activism; queer as played by Robin Williams and Sharon Stone and as lived by Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena; queer in the courthouses of Washington D.C. and on the streets of hometown America. Contextualizing these contemporary stories with ones from the past, and understanding them through the analytic tools of feminist social criticism and history, the authors show what it means to be queer in America. queer[adj]: 1. differing from what is usual or ordinary; odd; singular; strange 2. slightly ill 3. mentally unbalanced 4. counterfeit; not genuine 5. homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision, but lately used by some as a descriptive term without negative connotations --Webster's Dictionary queer[adj]: used to describe a 1. body of theory 2. field of critical inquiry 3. way of proudly identifying a group of people 4. way of seeing the world 5. sense of difference from the norm --David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, American Queer, Now and Then

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Bulldykes, Faggots, and Fairies, Oh My! Calling and Being Called Queer in America, Now and Then	1	(28)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (1978)	5	(3)
Audre Lorde
Classifications of Homosexuality (1916), Urologic and Cutaneous Review	8	(2)
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)	10	(5)
Alfred C. Kinsey
Wardell B. Pomeroy
Clyde E. Martin
Gay New York (1994)	15	(14)
George Chauncey
Are We Free to Be You and Me? Queer Sexuality in America, Now and Then	29	(24)
Sex Variants (1941)	33	(5)
George Henry
Sexual Deviations (1968, 1980), American Psychiatric Association	38	(3)
Introduction to Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits (1996)	41	(4)
Loren Cameron
My Gender Workbook (1998)	45	(8)
Kate Bornstein
Out and About: Queer Spaces in America, Now and Then	53	(38)
Homosexual Complexion Perverts in St. Louis: Note on a Feature of Psychopathy (1907) Alienist and Neurologist	57	(1)
``I Could Hardly Wait to Get Back to That Bar'': Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1930s and 1940s (1993)	58	(8)
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
Madeline Davis
Renegotiating the Social / Sexual Identities of Places: Gay Communities as Safe Havens or Sites of Resistance? (1994)	66	(10)
Wayne Myslik
At the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (2003)	76	(5)
Bonnie J. Morris
One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (1996)	81	(10)
William G. Hawkeswood
Alex W. Costley
The Birds and the. . . Birds: Queer Love, Sex, and Romance in America, Now and Then	91	(32)
Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (1926)	95	(7)
Richard Bruce Nugent
Opening Pandora's Box (2004)	102	(3)
Christi Cassidy
Mike Goes to the Baths (1984)	105	(5)
Michael Callen
Paradigms Old and New (1998)	110	(7)
Dossie Easton
Catherine A. Liszt
It's a White Man's World (2005)	117	(6)
Dwight A. McBride
Where Are Our White Picket Fences? Queer Relationships and Families in America, Now and Then	123	(44)
Younger Brother Dynamics (2000)	127	(4)
Dan Savage
Take My Domestic Partner, Please: Gays and Marriage in the Era of the Visible (2001)	131	(15)
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Queer Families Quack Back (2002)	146	(17)
Judith Stacey
Elizabeth Davenport
Weddings / Celebrations (2002)	163	(2)
Daniel Gross
Steven Goldstein
Ruling in Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Health (2003)	165	(2)
Chief Justice Margaret Marshall
To See and Be Seen: Queers in American Media and Entertainment, Now and Then	167	(14)
Why Did I Write The Well of Loneliness? (1934)	171	(3)
Radclyffe Hall
Angels in America (1992)	174	(2)
Tony Kushner
Prologue to All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (2003)	176	(5)
Suzanna Danuta Walters
Sticks and Stones: Bullying, and Battering, and Beating American Queers, Now and Then	181	(36)
Stone Butch Blues (1993)	185	(8)
Leslie Feinberg
The Laramie Project (2001)	193	(5)
Moises Kaufman
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem (1995)	198	(12)
Valerie Jenness
National School Climate Survey, Key Findings (2003), Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network	210	(5)
Ruling in Lawrence v. Texas (2003)	215	(2)
Justice Anthony Kennedy
I Am That Name: American Queer Activism, Now and Then	217	(28)
The Society for Human Rights (1925)	223	(2)
Henry Gerber
Preface to The Stone Wall (1930)	225	(1)
Mary Casal
Statement of Missions and Purposes (1951)	226	(2)
Mattachine Society
The Ladder (1956)	228	(4)
Daughters of Bilitis
The Woman Identified Woman (1971)	232	(4)
Radicalesbians
Introduction to Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983)	236	(5)
Barbara Smith
No More Business as Usual (1987), AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)	241	(1)
Mission Statement (1986), Trikone	242	(1)
Mission Statement (1993), Southerners on New Ground	243	(1)
Mission Statement (1995), Gender PAC	243	(1)
Mission Statement (1990), National Latinalo Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Organization (LLEGO)	244	(1)
Mission Statement (2004), Mosaic: The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity	244	(1)
Conclusion: We're Here, We're Queer, Now What?	245	(24)
Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma (1995)	249	(16)
Josh Gamson
Heeding Isaiah's Call (2002)	265	(4)
David Shneer
Caryn Aviv
Index	269	(19)
Credits	288