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History is an ongoing process through which we understand and define ourselves and our lives.

— Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States (2011)

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Anything that liberates is not without risk.

Interpretations are best made with the long view in mind.

A Queer History of the United States (2011)

Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.

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)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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