Local Histories Bibliography

LGBT Histories of U.S. Villages, Towns, Cities, Counties, States

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Also see: Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest

Beemyn, Brett. Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories

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Buring, Daneel. Lesbian and gay Memphis: Building Communities Behind the Magnolia Curtain

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Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Cabello, Tristan. Queer Bronzville [Chicago]

http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Queer_Bronzeville_:_An_Overview

Chauncey, George. Gay New York.

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Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. 280. $17.95 (paper).

Alice Mitchell murder of Freda Ward in Memphis, TN, January 1892.

Faderman, Lillian. Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians

2006

Howard, John. Men Like That: A Southern Queer History

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History Project, The: Documenting GLBT Boston

http://www.historyproject.org/

Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.

See city and state names in index.

Katz, Jonathan Ned. Gay/Lesbian Almanac

See city and state names in index.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis. Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold:

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Krahulik, Karen Christel. Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort.

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NYU Press

Cloth: $46.00

ISBN: 9780814747612

Release Date: 6/01/2005

288 pages, 36 illustrations

Paperback: $21.00

ISBN: 9780814747629

Release Date: 5/01/2007

288 pages, 36 illustrations

Publisher's Description:

How did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusetts—alternately known as Land’s End, Cape-tip, Cape-end, and, to some, Queersville, U.S.A—has meant many things to many people.

Provincetown tells the story of this beguiling coastal town, from its early history as a mid-nineteenth century colonial village to its current stature as a bustling gay tourist destination. It details the many cultures and groups—Yankee artists, Portuguese fishermen, tourists—that have comprised and influenced Provincetown, and explains how all of them, in conjunction with larger economic and political forces, come together to create a gay and lesbian mecca.

Through personal stories and historical accounts, Provincetown reveals the fascinating features that have made Provincetown such a textured and colorful destination: its fame as the landfall of the Mayflower Pilgrims, charm as an eccentric artists’ colony, and allure as a Dionysian playground. It also hints at one of Provincetown’s most dramatic economic changes: its turn from fishing village to resort town. From a history of fishing economies to a history of tourism, Provincetown, in the end, is as eclectic and vibrant as the city itself.

American Historical Review:

"Krahulik offers a fascinating and lively account of how Provincetown, Massachusetts, became America's most famous gay resort. The book is both a celebration of the community's embrace of freedom and a reminder that Provincetown—despite its vaunted tolerance for sexual nonconformity—faced problems of racism, sexism, and economic exploitation. . . . this important book also reveals that being a gay resort did not protect Provincetown from class, racial, ethnic, or gender conflicts."

Miller, Allan V. "Sex in the West Bibliography"

http://www.cowboysong.com/bib/biba.html

Newton, Esther. Cherry Grove [add subtitle and data]

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Plaster, Joey. Polk Street History Project [San Francisco].

http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Polk_Street

Retzloff, Tim. "Artifacts and Disclosures: Michigan's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage

Mich.: s.n., 1999

Retzloff, Tim. "From Storage Box to Computer Screen: Disclosing Artifacts of Queer History in Michigan."

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. Volume 7, Number 1, 2001, pp. 153-181

Retzloff, Tim. "Michigan LGBT Timeline"

Mich.: s.n., 1999

Sears, James T. Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997, 317 pp., $28.00 hardcover

Sears, James T. Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South.

Price: $28.00

Subject: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2964-6

Pages: 421 pp., 27 b&w illus.

Publisher's Description:

A richly told history of queer Southern life in the seventies, after the Stonewall uprising.

In the decade following the 1969 clashes at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, the emergence of communities among southern lesbians, bisexuals, gay men, and transgendered persons gained new vibrancy and visibility. Where isolation and accommodation had characterized queer southern life since World War II, the seventies were marked by networking and organizing, discoing and marching. In Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones, award-winning writer James T. Sears tells the stories of queer history in the South through characters who shaped, and were shaped by, the events ushered in by the antiwar, civil rights, womens liberation, and gay movements following Stonewall. Sears builds upon his own earlier acclaimed book, Lonely Hunters, which details the postWorld War II generation of southern homosexuals.

Sears interweaves stories of people and places to chronicle a distinctly southern panorama of queer life in a time of transformation. He brings to light unforgettable people and events whose effect on America is still with us: A psychedelic queer wedding. Drag pageants. Motorcycle runs. Dyke softball. Faery gatherings. Gay prison life. Sears follows a dozen characters as they build communities of desire and the heart, work for social change, construct sexual identitiesand muster the political clout to take on Anita Bryant and march on Washington. He describes the evolution of music and literature, the bar and disco scenes, and gay spirituality in cities and towns from Virginia to Texas.

In rich, novelistic fashion, Sears explores how southern queer communities emerged from a region and culture uniquely contoured by the divisions of race, social class, religion, and gender, showing how the newly constructed communities of the seventies both owed a debt to their precursors and looked hopefully to the future.

Stein, Marc. [Philadelphia]

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Stryker, Susan. Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Also see: Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest