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This groundbreaking three-volume reference traces the roots and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and issues in the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present day. With the social, religious, and political stigmas attached to alternative lifestyles throughout history, most homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people lived covertly for much of, if not all of, their lives. Likewise, the narrative of our country excludes the contributions, struggles, and historical achievements of this group. This revealing, chronologically arranged reference work uncovers the rich story of the LGBT community in the United States and discusses the politics, culture, and issues affecting it since the early 17th century.Author Chuck Stewart traces the evolution of LGBT issues as part of our nation's shared cultural past and modern-day experience. Volume 1 focuses on the origins of the movement with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the 1970s and the beginning of gay rights activism in the United States. Volume 2 spans the 1980s and the AIDs pandemic through the present-day issues of marriage equality. Volume 3 gives a concise review of this society in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
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Booklist Review
As a foundation for LGBT collections, this reference work organizes a broad overview of socioeconomic, religious, and legal ramifications. A 71-page chronology sets the tone of objective inquiry with sociosexual attitudes incorporating a variety of cultures, such as Maya, Eskimo, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Catholic Europeans, and Russians. A dated list cites year-by-year events in the U.S. from the early seventeenth century to the present. Topical entries cover individuals (Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Jesse Helms) as well as groups (Boy Scouts, Mormon Church); laws (Defense of Marriage Act, Title VII, Civil union); and events (Stonewall riot). The second volume arranges documents ranging from selections from the Bible to the Comstock persecutions, court cases, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The third volume covers laws and issues in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Meaty essays present integral controversies, along with protest leaders and groups and leaders of the conservative and fundamental backlash against employment and free association of the LGBT population. Black-and-white photos elucidate emotionally charged confrontations, featuring notable figures who impacted the civil rights movement. A detailed index guides readers, teachers, ministers, and researchers to specifics of pedophilia, court judgments, hate-crime statistics, adoption laws, AIDS activism, and the opinions of Anita Bryant, Barack Obama, and the Cherokee Nation. A valuable resource for public, high-school, and academic libraries, Stewart's encyclopedia places in context the growing decriminalization and approbation of varied forms of sexuality.--Snodgrass, Mary Ellen Copyright 2015 Booklist
Choice Review
This three-volume encyclopedic work builds on independent scholar Stewart's prior publications, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide (CH, Oct'10, 48-0630), Gay and Lesbian Issues (CH, Nov'03, 41-1265), and Homosexuality and the Law (CH, Nov'01, 39-1320). Here the focus is largely on events, people, documents, and laws of the United States, with some thematic departures. The first volume contains a post-1980s chronology of events along with entries for key people, historical eras, events, organizations, and controversial issues. The second and third volumes provide primary documents and an overview of state laws that impact LGBTQ rights, respectively. The extensive bibliographies at the end of the legal summaries discussing statutes for each state will prove useful for beginning students and those requiring more in-depth information. Each volume contains a table of contents for the complete set, and the third contains a cumulative index. Mileage may vary; the first volume, in particular, suffers from inconsistent article quality, although there are stand-out contributions. These include "Boy Scouts" and "Chinese Early LGBTQ History in the United States," for example, and "Same-Sex Marriage in the United States" provides a fine legal and political history of this timely issue. The primary documents in volume 2 greatly facilitate the aim of "filling in the blanks and silences of a past that has always been queerer than heteropatriarchal histories have acknowledged," as contributor Christopher Lozensky writes. However, to this end one might wish that the number of documents about the LGBTQ community had been pared down in favor of additional documents written by the LGBTQ community. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate students; general readers. --Lauren Stern, SUNY Cortland