Gay Liberation

    • The First Politician To Speak Out For Homosexual Rights is an 1898 speech by August Bebel, leader of the great German Social Democracy. To read it click here.

    • A 1928 Gay Rights Speech is a speech that Kurt Hiller delivered to the Second International Congress for Sexual Reform (Copenhagen 1928). To read it click here. 

    • Supervirile Men is a quotation from Dr. Jaeger's “Die Entdeckung der Seele”, translated by Edward Carpenter and included in his book, The Intermediate Sex (1912). To read it click here. 

    • Political-Economic Construction of Gay Male Identities is a talk I gave in 1987 to an international conference — Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality? — which was held at the Free University in Amsterdam. To read it click here. 

    • The Enigmatic Narrator: The Voicing of Same-Sex Love in the Poetry of John Donne is my essay-review of a book by George Klawitter. It appeared in the Fall 1995 issue of The James White Review: A Gay Men's Literary Quarterly. To read it click here. 

    • Gay Lieder is an article that appeared (under the title “The Lieder and Homoerotic Love”) in the September-October 2006 issue of the Gay & Lesbian Review. To read it click here. 

    • William A. Percy and I reviewed Magnus Hirschfeld's magnum opus, The Homosexuality of Men and Women (translated from the German by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash) in the November-December issue of Gay & Lesbian Review. To read the review click here. 

  • I reviewed Paul Robinson's book, Queer Wars, for H-Net. To read it click here.

  • The First Gay Liberation Front Demonstration is an article I wrote for the electronic publication, Gay Today, which was edited by the late Jack Nichols. I had known Jack from the earliest days of gay liberation in New York City. To read the article click here.

 • For years now Gay Marriage has been touted as the Number One issue of the gay and lesbian (or GLBT) movement. However, many gay scholars and activists are opposed to it, or at least to the priority it has been given.  David Thorstad, co-author with me of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935), has written a spirited polemic against Gay Marriage, which was published in The Guide; to read it in HTML form click here; or, to read it in PDF form click here.

• Arthur Cyrus Warner, a friend and mentor of mine and a leader of the homophile movement, died on 22 July 2007 at the age of 89. To read his obituary click here.

• “Achilles & Patroklos”. Edward Carpenter's Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship (1902) is in many ways unsurpassed. To read this excerpt click here.

• NEW: Gay Liberation Front. This section has material on the New York Gay Liberation Front, including a reproduction of the first issue of ComeOut! (14 November 1969), the first publication of the post-Stonewall gay liberation movement. To visit the GLF section click here.

• NEW:  Gay Activists Alliance. This section has material on the New York Gay Activists Alliance (1969-1981), including two GAA pamphlets: 20 Questions and Repeal the New York Consensual Sodomy Statute. Also, a few photographs of GAA demonstrations. To visit the GAA section click here.



NOTE
* The young man in the tree is “Jackie Hormona” (a street name). He played a leading role in the Stonewall Uprising, as described in David Carter's book, Stonewall.



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