International Influences in LGBTQ History

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From the founding of the American colonies to the present, international connections have played a major role in U.S. LGBTQ history, and LGBTQ-related events in the U.S. have profoundly influenced LGBT history in other nations. A global perspective on the LGBTQ historical experience begins to illuminate the profound interactions between different national histsories. Here are a few examples:





  • The controversy in England and the U.S. over Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, in 1928 and 1929, provoked public discussion of lesbianism in both countries. (Documentation to be added: June 4, 2012.)


  • News of the Stonewall uprising of 1969, and the formation of militant, confrontational groups in New York and elsewhere in the U.S. influenced the rise of similar groups in Great Britain.
See, for example:
Adam, Barry D. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, Revised Edition (Social Movements Past and Present Series). Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. (Adam provides an American overview.)
Adam, Barry D., Jan Willem Duyvendak, and André Krouwel, eds. _The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement_. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.



  • The gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic, published in Toronto, Canada, in the 1970s, was read by and influenced gay liberationists in the U.S. (Documentation to be added. June 4, 2012.)


This entry begins to note and list some of the major international influences in LGBTQ history.


Alphabetical Listing

Adam, Barry D., Jan Willem Duyvendak, and André Krouwel, eds. The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.


Body Politic (periodical; Toronto, Canada)


Daughters of Bilitis (U.S.)

Daughters of Bilitis (Australia]


Films


Gay Liberation Front (New York City)


Gay Liberation Movement (U.S.)


German Homosexual Emancipation Movement


Hirschfeld, Magnus


Immigration


Periodicals


Stein, Gertrude


Well of Loneliness (novel; Radclyffe Hall)


Whitman, Walt

Carpenter, Edward
Lorca, Federico García
Symonds, John Addington


Notes

  1. Accessed May 15, 2012