"An Understanding...Held Them Together": John Sterling and James Bloss, 1870-1918, by Jonathan Ned Katz

In 1864, John William Sterling graduated from Yale College. About 1870, in his mid-twenties, Sterling met James Orville Bloss, who was three years younger. The two formed a relationship of almost 50 years, and lived together in New York City for most…

Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South

[ID: a book cover of La Shonda Mims’s Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: Queer Women in the Urban South. All of the words of the title are in capital letters. The title is depicted in a typewriter font, and all of the title words are in black,…

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the American West

[ID: The cover of Stranger Intimacy: Constructing Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West by Nayan Shah. The cover is a monochrome photograph of an Asian man with dark skin and a head covering with a long, white beard. He wears…

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown

[ID: The cover of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nayan Shah. The cover shows two collaged images atop each other. The foremost image shows a group of tan-skinned Chinese American men and boys in a line. They…

Work! A Queer History of Modeling

[ID: a book cover of Elspeth H. Brown’s Work! A Queer History of Modeling. All of the text is depicted at the top of the cover, with the subtitle and author’s name appearing in a small, black, serif font on the right. To the left of that, in italics,…

Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left

[ID: a book cover of Emily K. Hobson’s Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left. The background of the cover is warm lavender. Most of the cover is taken up by a cut-off five-point star with a thick red outline. Inside…

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940

[ID: The cover of Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 by Julio Capó Jr. The top half of the cover is a vivid watercolor illustration of several nude, muscular figures on a sandy beach surrounded by trees. Behind them, in the distance, light…

Katz, Christiana, pp. 304-305

Katz's analysis of the slave owner Edward Gorsuch and ex-slave William Parker, major participants in the fugitive slave resistance, Christiana, PA, Sept. 11, 1851. From Katz's book Resistance at Christiana.

Katz, Christiana, pp. 302-303

Katz, Christiana, pp. 300-301

A Brief History of GAY: Canada's First Gay Tabloid, 1964-1966

[ID: The cover of Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life As a Canadian Gay Activist by Jim Egan. Below the author's name reads, "Compiled and edited by Donald W. McLeod." The background of the cover is a blue toned monotone photograph of two…

Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life as a Canadian Gay Activist

[ID: The cover of Challenging the Conspiracy of Silence: My Life As a Canadian Gay Activist by Jim Egan. Below the author's name reads, "Compiled and edited by Donald W. McLeod." The background of the cover is a blue toned monotone photograph of two…

Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975

[ID: The cover of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology 1976-1981 by Donald W. McLeod. In the upper half of the cover is a black and white photograph of three couples kissing outdoors. Above and below the photograph is…

Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975

[ID: The cover of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975 by Donald W. McLeod. The background of the cover is a black and white photograph of protesters marching leftward. Many of them have long hair and hold…

LGBT Direct Action Chart 2

LGBT Direct Action Chart 1

Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism

[ID: The cover of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism by Peter Drucker. The background of the cover depicts a gestural abstracted drawing. Amongst swaths of light and dark blues, golds, and purples, human figures depicted in black and…

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History

[Image description: a book cover of E. Patrick Johnson’s Black. Queer. Southern. Women., depicting a cropped photograph of two shirtless Black women looking into each other’s eyes affectionately. They both have medium-toned skin. The woman on the…

Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence

[ID: The cover of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence by Darius Bost. The cover depicts a black and white photograph of a Black person's side profile, with the face looking upward and to the right. The…

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

[ID: The cover ofLost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin,by John D'Emilio. The cover depicts a black and white photograph of a Black man in a suit looking upward contemplatively. He wears thick rimmed glasses and has salt and pepper hair as…