My Desire for History
Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/2011
Pages: 344
Subject: Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807877982
DESCRIPTION
This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a
self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the
study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known
for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under
Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1990),
Berube also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in
San Francisco and on the relationship between sexuality, class, and
race. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, who were close colleagues
and friends of Berube, have selected sixteen of his most important
essays, including hard-to-access articles and unpublished writing.
The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while
it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay
community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together,
the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals
and communities to create social change.