Making Trouble

by John D'Emilio

Combining historical and political analysis with autobiography and memoir, Making Trouble brings together the essays of John D`Emilio, a pioneering gay historian and long-time movement activist.

Genres: History, Queer, Nonfiction, LGBT, American History

320 pages, Paperback

First published August 14, 1992

About the author

John D'Emilio is a professor emeritus of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1982, where his advisor was William E. Leuchtenburg. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998 and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in 1997 and also served as Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1995 to 1997.

Reviews

[Larry · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of essays has some very important research and insights by one our premier LGBTQ historians. It's very well worth reading by anyone concerned about this era or about LGBTQ history. I found some of the short essays about his personal sexual history uncomfortable, but that is about me, not him.

[Marsha Altman · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you've read his other work, this is a collection of essays, some taken from speeches he gave, so the material can get repetitive, which was the only reason to take off a star. The essays that are great are REALLY great. Worth reading even if you have to skip around a bit.

[R.J. Gilmour · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of D'emilio's essays which look at queer history, politics & the academy.

[Averin · Rating 5 out of 5]

GLBTQ history essays mostly from the point of view of someone who was there on stage or in the front row. I'll be forever grateful to the professor who introduced me to a historian who writes such well-crafted work.

[Neil H · Rating 5 out of 5]

A moving, well researched gallery of articles from JD throughout the 1950's thru 1990 about the Gay and or Lesbian movments. The last article is the most hard hitting. You will definitely want to read that.

[Soph Nova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great essay collection including some seminal bangers like Capitalism & Gay Identity.