In late 19th-century America, most physicians shared Dr. Monroe’s revulsion at the very idea of same-sex activity, but an enlightened few noted that in Europe things were beginning to change, and they asked their fellow physicians to reconsider their loathing.
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It was Evelyn Hooker who pointed out that defining homosexuality as a “mental illness” was based on an untested assumption.
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Harry Benjamin spearheaded the medicalization and the legitimization of transgender health care.
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Developing the bomb was not the only secret that Schwob was harboring. There was also the matter of his sexuality—something of an open secret.
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WE TEND TO FORGET that Andy Warhol was a writer, sort of. During his lifetime, he published several books, notably a: A Novel (1968), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A…More
In 1871, prominent Boston surgeon Henry Bigelow built a summer home on the west end of Tuckernuck Island, a home he called “Tuckanuck” (spelling the name of the cottage the way the locals pronounced the name of the island itself). The building was rustic and isolated, without indoor plumbing or gaslight, but sea breezes provided a welcome break from Boston’s stifling summer heat. The home was eventually inherited by Henry’s only child, William Sturgis Bigelow, who set about turning it into a summer retreat for a very different sort of family.
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In keeping with this mission, The Pagoda is just such a work. The book is a well-researched account of a women’s land community that flourished near St. Augustine, Florida, for 22 years. Surprisingly, information about The Pagoda rarely appears in academic literature about women’s communities, and many contemporary lesbian scholars haven’t heard of it. This circumstance is due in part to the intentional secrecy of the community itself.
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In 1973, a major change took place in the lives of LGBT+ San Antonians with the opening of SA Country. … The bar was raided almost immediately.
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COCKTAILS with George and Martha is a cultural history that captures the moment when Broadway drama received a jolt from the Theater of the Absurd. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which opened on Broadway in October 1962, jumps off from the Bohemian precincts of New York City—especially Greenwich Village and Off-Broadway, where Albee’s first one-act play, The Zoo Story, had its American premiere at the Provincetown Playhouse after an unlikely world premiere in Berlin.
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Guy Trebay captures the essential things about the sexual playground that was Manhattan during the transition from Doom to Glitter.
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