Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary

by Jonathan Ned Katz

A chronology of two sexual worlds--early Colonial America and early modern United States--combines a wide variety of information, including personal testimony, news reports, medical records, songs, cartoons, and more, to portray the history of gays in America. Original.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Gay, Queer, LGBT

765 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Jonathan Ned Katz (b. 1938) is a playwright, historian, teacher, gay rights advocate, and textile designer who has received the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature, and Yale University's Brudner Prize for a leading scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. Despite the lack of an advanced degree, he has taught at Yale University, Eugene Lang College, and New York University; has led a faculty seminar at Princeton University; and spoken on many campuses. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, The Nation, and The Advocate.

His papers and numerous audio and video recordings are stored in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of The New York Public Library. He is the son of Bernard S. Katz.

Reviews

[Elizabeth]

bought late 2008

BIG book
about what is now called homosexual and Lesbian behavior
extends the research begun in Gay American History 1976.