Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

by Tracy Brown and Lillian Faderman

Book Overview

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Although the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814727492
• ISBN13: 9780814727492
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"