Pieces for a History of Gay Studies (English Edition)

A pioneer of gay studies in North America, Stephen O. Murray discusses the long prehistory of characterizing subspecies of humans defined by same-sex object choice and/or gender nonconformity, anthropologists' penchants for explaining homosexuality away (with particular focus on Haiti and Native North America), the functionalist role theory of Mary McIntosh, perspectives on the early gay rights movement by Edward Sagarin and Laud Humphreys, the founding of gay/lesbian caucuses in professional associations, the deassmilation of the clone era, Michel Foucault's disjunctivist suggestions, not very social "social constructionism" and the theoretical nihilism of so-called "queer theory."