Michael Bronski
Author of A Queer History of the United States
About the Author
Michael Bronski is professor of practice in media and activism in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Harvard University. He has written extensively on LGBT issues for four decades, in both mainstream and queer publications, and is the author of three other books and editor of several show more anthologies. show less
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Works by Michael Bronski
queer.SEX. (Winter 2006) 1 copy
The Last gay liberationist 1 copy
Associated Works
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (1999) — Contributor — 79 copies
In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50, The Gay and Lesbian Review at 25, Best Essays 1994-2018 (2019) — Contributor; Contributor — 75 copies
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights (2022) — Introduction — 51 copies
From the closet to the courtroom : Five LGBT rights lawsuits that have changed our nation (2010) — Preface — 49 copies
Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 (2019) — Contributor — 28 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1949-05-12
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- historian
editor
professor - Relationships
- Borawski, Walta (partner)
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Awards
Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics (Finalist – LGBT Nonfiction – 2016)
"You Can Tell Just By Looking": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Finalist – LGBT Nonfiction – 2014)
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One thing to note is that the book is very much a history not of the United States in totality, but of the contemporary LGBTQ community. It's a "how did we get here" kind of read. This is all well and good, but I thought there could have been better coverage of racial minorities (especially non-Black people of color), indigenous communities, the Latin American world, and rural/working-class/non-visible folks whose experiences didn't survive to become the "gay community" as we now imagine it.
As an example of what I was hoping to see: I remember my American women's history professor including lessons on Native American and West African women. Even though these histories were subsumed by European imperialism, we still studied them. In Bronski's defense, I'd hazard a guess that we don't have enough academics writing about the queer history of marginalized people, sad face.… (more)