{"product_id":"long-before-stonewall","title":"Long Before Stonewall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal harassment for publicly expressing homosexual interest through words or actions.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLong Before Stonewall\u003c\/b\u003e seeks to uncover the many iterations of same-sex desire in colonial America and the early Republic, as well as to expand the scope of how we define and recognize homosocial behavior. Thomas A. Foster has assembled a pathbreaking, interdisciplinary collection of original and classic essays that explore topics ranging from homoerotic imagery of black men to prison reform to the development of sexual orientations. This collection spans a regional and temporal breadth that stretches from the colonial Southwest to Quaker communities in New England. It also includes a challenge to commonly accepted understandings of the Native American \u003ci\u003eberdache\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, connections of race, class, status, and gender are emphasized, exposing the deep foundations on which modern sexual political movements and identities are built.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222621016408,"sku":"9780814727492","price":88.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/long-before-stonewall","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}