A queer history of the United States for young people
Introduction: Before we start, or, What is normal? -- Native peoples : different genders, different sexualities -- Thomas Morton : free love among the Puritans? -- Jemima Wilkinson : the surprising life of Publick Universal Friend -- Deborah Sampson : patriot, soldier, gender rebel -- Nineteenth-century romantic friendships : BFFs or friends with benefits? -- The mystery of Emily Dickinson : passionate attachments and independent women -- Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Charles Sumner : complicated relationships and radical social change in very proper nineteenth-century Boston -- The amazing life of Albert D.J. Cashier : transgender war hero -- Charlotte Cushman : American idol, lover of women -- Walt Whitman : poet of the people -- Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown : a nineteenth-century love story -- The radical Victoria Woodhull : first woman to run for president -- Jane Addams : the mother of social work -- Julian Eltinge : the most famous cross-dresser in America -- Marie Equi : fighting for women, workers, peace, and justice for all -- Gladys Bentley : blues-singing bulldagger -- World War II : the war that started LGBTQ politics -- Harry Hay : how his society of fools started a revolution -- Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin : climbing the ladder of freedom and justice -- Pauli Murray : "You must remember that truth is our only sword" -- Bayard Rustin : a life of activism -- Carl Wittman : radical movements, political organizing, and country dance -- Rita Mae Brown : the lavender menace writes her way to freedom -- Gloria Anzaldua : a life between borders -- Sylvester and Anita Bryant : marching to two very different drummers -- Robert Hillsborough and Harvey Milk : struggle and violence, grief and rage -- Essex Hemphill : the power of blackness -- Kiyoshi Kuromiya : man of many movements -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres : art in the face of death -- Moving closer to liberation : the future is in sight : 1990-present -- Jamie Nabozny : gay teen hero -- Jack Baker and Michael McConnell : it started in a barber shop -- Sylvia Rivera : a life in the streets and a guiding star -- Coming out or staying in : new queer ways of living in the world today -- Young people today : the future of queer history.