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Reviews of Katz's Books
Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Dec. 2001
“the most fully contextualized learn we have so far of [Walt] Whitman’s affections for males…. Katz effectively creates a historical panorama of nineteenth-century male/male sexual behavior, and demonstrates how the culture worked to keep ‘romantic, spiritual love’ between men totally separate from sexual lust between men…. In this book context is everything, and never before have these stories been told against such a detailed backdrop of nineteenth-century male/male sexual and affectional behavior…. Katz has simply dug deeper than anyone else to put these stories together in compelling, surprising, and satisfying ways. – Ed Folsom, Editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 21, issue 3-4, pages 179-182. April 1, 2021.
"a living tableau of 19th-century male sex in America...History at its best: informative, insightful, at times downright titilating"--Kirkus Reviews
"nuanced, careful, and humane readings of the ways that gay people have ac
With this edition of Gay American History, sixteen years after its initial publication, I'm glad that a new generation will be encouraged to read the inspiring story of Barbara Gittings' adv lesbian rights activism; the courageous story of Henry Gerber's founding of the first American homosexual-rights organization; the sad story of Lucy Ann Lobdell; the sentimental story of Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens; the disturbing story of Alberta Lucille Hart (continued in my Gay/Lesbian Almanac [Harper & Row, 1983]); the fascinating story of John Addington Symonds' pursuit of Walt Whitman; the passionate story of Almeda Sperry's love for Emma Goldman—among many others.
I hope that another generation will enjoy, as much as I do, the aesthetically evocative, intellectually provocative language of the old documents, words that include the power to take us back into another time and place, to explore a world very different from our own.
Back around 1974, deep into the detective work for this publication, I had begun to unearth numerous documents of a long-lost lesbian and gay America
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. A Documentary and Pioneering Collection of Turbulent Chronicles - A Startling New Perspective on the Nation's Past Edition: first - Softcover
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., A Documentary and Pioneering Collection of Turbulent Chronicles - A Startling New Perspective on the Nation's Past
Katz, Jonathan
Published by Crowell, 1976
ISBN 10: 0690011652 / ISBN 13: 9780690011654
Used / Soft cover
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Softcover, large format Trade Paperback, 10" x 6.75", 690 pages, 2" thick, weight = 3.2 lbs, (book rate of $6.35 included in asking price), Condition: Fair, due to verb of spine at page 322/333, No loose pages but spine is broken and creased at this point, Normally would not sell but this is such a classic History book, I wanted to offer it as a collectors item at a reduced price, rubbing and wear to cover and page edges, light crease to back co
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. : a Documentary History
"This ground-breaking operate is the primary sourcebook for an accurate, fascinating, historical account of American lesbians and gay men. Now with a modern preface and an updated bibliography, the collection remains the most complete and authoritative reference operate of the homosexual experience in the United States. Here are reprints of rare and hard-to-find documents that represent over four hundred years of oppression, noun, and struggle in the Recent World. Among its wealth of provocative material are an 1891 photograph of male-male dancing in the Old West; a 1974 interview with a male homosexual victim of shock treatment; a 1629 journal account of 'sodomitical activity' among the first American colonists; and an account of lesbianism in the life of blues singer Bessie Smith. Impeccably researched and covering American history from the earliest European settlers and Native Americans to contemporary times, this volume is both a superb history and a deeply moving work." --Back cover