An edition of About Time: Exploring the Gay Past (1986)

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Exploring the Gay Past

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About Time: Exploring the Gay Past
1994, Meridian, Penguin Books Ltd
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About time: exploring the gay past
1991, Meridian
in English - Rev. and expanded ed.
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1986, Gay Presses of New York
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Page xi
Introduction to first edition
Page xiii
Note to revised edition
Page xvii
Part one : Documents
Page 1
1826 : "Writhing bedfellows" in antebellum South Carolina : historical interpretation and the politics of evidence
Page 3
c. 1820 : The female husband
Page 24
1773-1819 : A bow to heterosexual history
Page 31
1878 : The perils of masturbation
Page 47
1880s : Uncensoring "The mountain chant"
Page 50
1881 : Water sports
Page 54
1885 : Intimacy without orgasm
Page 59
1909-1960s : "My gay life"
Page 68
1912 : "I am not contented" : female masochism and lesbianism in early twentieth-century New England
Page 89
1913 : Walt Whitman's anomaly
Page 106
1914-21 : Documents in Hopi Indian sexuality
Page 121
1915 : Therapy and bisexuality
Page 133
1930s : "Sex variant women"
Page 139
1932 : In defense of homosexuality
Page 145
1933 : "The New Deal: sex in the CCC camps
Page 149
1935 : "Our 'bi-sexed' heritage"
Page 155
1936 : "Degenerates of Greenwich Village"
Page 160
1948 : Boy prostitution
Page 163
1948 : Boys and boy-loving
Page 169
1950 : "The vilest of rackets"
Page 173
1950 : Hunting sex perverts
Page 177
1951 : When is an "H" not an "H"?
Page 186
1951-55 : Dr. Kinsey and Mr. "X"
Page 194
1955 : Don't call us "Queer City"
Page 216
1956 : The gay "stranglehold" on theater
Page 220
1956: How the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis got "de-Fagged"
Page 224
1958 : Radio leads the way
Page 228
1960 : The international homosexual conspiracy
Page 233
1963 : Growth of overt homosexuality in city provokes wide concern
Page 238
1964 : A friend at court
Page 246
1965 : American Indian transvestism
Page 251
Part two: essays
Page 259
1971 : The literature of homosexuality
Page 261
1973 : "The faggot"
Page 268
1973 : Coming out
Page 278
1974 : The course of the gay movement
Page 283
1974 : Bisexuality
Page 288
1975 : Consenting adult
Page 305
1975 : Sex and the military : the Matlovich case
Page 313
1977 : the Anita Bryant brigade
Page 342
1978-79 : The experts on homosexuality: Masters and Johnson, The Kinsey Institute Study of Homosexuality
Page 355
1980 : Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality
Page 377
1982 : Racism in the gay male world
Page 386
1983 : The gay movement : from radicalism to reformism
Page 390
1988 : "Intimate matters"
Page 395
1988 : From the Abolitionists to gay history
Page 401
1939 : "Stonewall Place"
Page 424
1990 : Twice blessed or doubly other?
Page 428
1991 : Hidden from history: reclaiming gay/lesbian history, politics and culture
Page 436
Appendix : Bibliography
Page 469

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Harmondsworth

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.90664

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Pagination
505p. ;
Number of pages
505

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OL21449975M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0452010810
LibraryThing
29798
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OL1918296W

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