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Interpretations are best made with the long view in mind.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
History is an ongoing process through which we understand and define ourselves and our lives.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
Today we routinely use LGBT, a fairly recent, and accepted, amalgamation of identities, each of which has a specific history that often had little to do with the others.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
It is impossible to understand American history—including the position of LGBT people—without acknowledging the overwhelming, debilitating effect that slavery has had on this country
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
language is both an entryway and a dead end.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
Pedagogy, like history, will never be able to contain all of America-a great country, an evil country, a place of tremendous generosity and welcome as well as pronounced disdain for foreigners and outsiders. America is not one thing or another. America is queer.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
in America, equality under the law is a complicated affair. Certainly it is true that while laws are for everyone, they are often enforced mainly against the disenfranchised.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)
Whatever sexuality means today and did not mean before, the word, like others before it, has always attempted to describe something we know is not reducible to a word, an identity, or even a set of behaviors.
A Queer History of the United States (2011)