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Source: A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States is truly among the first of its kind. Engaging and thought-provoking, it's more than a sweeping survey--the book radically challenges how we understand queer American history. Both comprehensive and accessible, A Queer History of the United States restores the visibility of people relegated to the margins of history to make the provocative claim that LGBT history is American history.

Julie Abraham	John Adams	Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935)	Louisa May Alcott	Michael Amico	Robert Anderson	Stephen Pearl Andrews	Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927)
Sholem Asch	Robert Baden-Powell	Joan Baez (born January 9, 1941)	Vasco Nunez de Balboa	James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)	Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)	Ann Bannon (born September 15, 1932)	James Barr aka James Fugaté (February 13, 1922 - March 28, 1995)
Lisa Ben aka Edith Eyde (born November 7, 1921)	Edmund Bergler	Alexander Berkman	Allan Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007)	Mary McLeod Bethune	Irving Bieber	James Hervey Bingham	Pat Bond (February 27, 1925 — December 24, 1990)
Daniel Boone	David Bowie (born January 8, 1947)	William Bradford	Marlon Brando	Alan Bray (October 13, 1948 - November 25, 2001)	Lucy Brewer	John Briggs	Richard Brooks
Brigid Brophy, Lady Levey (June 12, 1929 – August 7, 1995)	Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)	Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Anita Bryant	Cannary Burke	John Horne Burns (October 7, 1916 – August 11, 1953)	Edgar Rice Burroughs
William S. Burroughs (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)	Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999)	Rory Calhoun	Frank S. Caprio	Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 - June 28, 1929)	Tyler Carpenter	Mary Casal	Albert Cashier
Charles Gilbert Chaddock	Charles I	George Chauncey	Badger Clark	Montgomery Clift	Joseph Collins	Anthony Comstock	Chris Connor (November 8, 1927 – August 29, 2009)
Blanche Wiesen Cook (born April 20, 1941)	James Fenimore Cooper	Merian C. Cooper	Caleb Crain	Davy Crockett	George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983)	Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946)	Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876)
Moll Cutpurse	Charles Darwin	F. Holland Day (July 8, 1864 - November 12, 1933)	James Dean	John D'Emilio (born September 21, 1948)	Elsie DeWolf	Molly Dewson	Emily Dickinson
Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992)	Troy Donahue	Mary Douglas	Marie Dressler	Jeanne Eagels (June 26, 1890 – October 3, 1929)	Thomas Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916)	Sarah Emma Edmonds	Albert Ellis
Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 – July 8, 1939)	Julian Eltinge (May 14, 1881 – March 7, 1941)	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Marie Equi (April 7, 1872 – July 13, 1952)	Lisa Ben aka Edith Eyde (born November 7, 1921)	Tom Eyen (August 14, 1940 - May 26, 1991)	Lillian Faderman (born July 18, 1940)	Jerry Falwell
Frances Faye (November 4, 1912 – November 8, 1991)	Leslie Fiedler	Mary Fields	Shulamith Firestone	Bruz Fletcher	Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (August 7, 1890 – September 5, 1964)	Jim Fouratt (born June 23, 1945)	Benjamin Franklin
Sigmund Freud	Betty Friedan	Trixie Friganza	Margaret Fuller	Annette Funicello	Greta Garbo	Judy Garland	Martin Gay
Sue Gilbert	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997)	Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940)	Sylvester Graham	Edith Guerrier	Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965)	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002)	Matilda Hays	Lillian Hellman	Katherine Hepburn	Angela Heywood	Lorena Hickok (March 7, 1893 – May 1, 1968)	Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995)	Magnus Hirschfeld (May 14, 1868 – May 14, 1935)
Adolf Hitler	Libby Holman (May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971)	J. Edgar Hoover	Arthur Hornblow, Jr.	Harriet Hosmer (October 9, 1830 - February 21, 1908)	Richard Hovey	Julia Ward Howe	Samuel Gridley Howe
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985)	Tab Hunter (born July 11, 1931)	Anne Hutchinson	Washington Irving	Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - January 4, 1986)	Andrew Jackson	Alice James	Henry James
James I	Thomas Jefferson	Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909)	Jill Johnston (May 17, 1929 – September 18, 2010)	James Jones	LeRoi Jones	Mary Harris Jones aka Mother	T.C. Jones (October 26, 1920 – September 21, 1971)
Janis Joplin	Jennie June aka Earl Lind	Jonathan Ned Katz	John Harvey Kellogg	John F. Kennedy	Jack Kerouac	Karl-Maria Kertbeny (February 28, 1824 - January 23, 1882)	James G. Kiernan
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Alfred Kinsey	Larry Kramer (born June 25, 1935)	George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011)	Michael Kuchar	Marquis de Lafayette	Bert Lahr	Esther Lape
W. Dorr Legg (December 15, 1904 - July 26, 1994)	Lew Levenson	Edmonia Lewis	J.C. Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951)	Beatrice Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989)	Abraham Lincoln	Earl Lind	Robert J. Lindner
Little Richard	Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)	Frederick W. Loring	Amy Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925)	Charles Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987)	Phyllis Lyon (born November 10, 1924)	Bernarr Macfadden	Guy Madison
Norman Mailer	Malcolm X	Thomas Mann	Elizabeth Marbury (June 19, 1856 - January 22, 1933)	Del Martin (May 5, 1921 - August 27, 2008)	William Masters	Virginia Johnson	Cotton Mather
Joseph McCarthy	Mary McCarthy	Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967)	Aimee Semple McPherson	Marijane Meaker aka Vin Packer aka Ann Aldrich aka M.E. Kerr aka Mary James (born May 27, 1927)	Richard Meeker aka Forman Brown (January 8, 1901 - January 10, 1996)	Herman Melville	Adah Isaacs Menken
Ethel Merman	Thomas Middleton	Thomas Dekker	Bette Midler	Harvey Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	Kate Millett (born September 14, 1934)	Sal Mineo (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976)
Vincente Minnelli	Bob Mizer	R.I. Moore	Agnes Moorehead	Thomas Morton	Willard Motley	George Nader (October 19, 1921 - February 4, 2002)	Pola Negri
Ricky Nelson	Leslea Newman	Esther Newton	Huey Newton	Blair Niles (1880 - April 13, 1959)	Harold Norse (July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009)	Ramón Novarro (February 6, 1899 – October 30, 1968)	Richard Bruce Nugent (July 2, 1906 - May 27, 1987)
Peter Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 - May 30, 2010)	Marijane Meaker aka Vin Packer aka Ann Aldrich aka M.E. Kerr aka Mary James (born May 27, 1927)	Dorothy Parker	Robert Patrick (born September 27, 1937)	Cindy Patton	William Penn	Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992)	Fritz Peters
Elvis Presley	Edward Prime-Stevenson (July 23, 1858 - July 23, 1942)	Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979)	Ronald Reagan	Mary Renault (September 4, 1905 – December 13, 1983)	Sylvia Rae Rivera (July 2, 1951 - February 19, 2002)	Pat Robertson	Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt	Gayle Rubin	Bayard Rustin	Deborah Sampson	Eugen Sandow	Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966)	John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925)	Beryl Satter
Sarah Schulman (born July 28, 1958)	Charley Shively	Irving Shulman	Robert Shurtliff	Frank Sinatra	Jack Smith	Hannah Snell	Peter Stallybrass
Emma Stebbins (September 1, 1815 - October 25, 1882)	Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)	Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843, – April 23, 1909)	Charles Sumner	John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893)	Eva Tanguay	Alfred Tannyhill	Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 – December 19, 1878)
Andre Tellier	Gerald Tesch	M. Cary Thomas	Frank Thompson	Lydia Thompson	Henry David Thoreau	Tom Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991)	Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain	Royall Tyler	Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs (August 28, 1825 - July 14, 1895)	Rudolph Valentino	John Van Druten (June 1, 1901 – December 19, 1957)	Jean-Claude van Itallie	Gore Vidal	Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931)
Loren Wahl	Lillian Wald	Andy Warhol	George Washington	Daniel Webster	Ida Wells	Ralph Werther	Mae West
Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)	John Wieners (January 6, 1934 – March 1, 2002)	Michael Wigglesworth	William Wilberforce	Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)	Gale Wilhelm (April 6, 1908 – July 11, 1991)	Jemima Wilkinson	Frances Willard
Roger Williams	Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)	Calder Willingham	John Winthrop	Theodore Winthrop	Carl Wittman (February 23, 1943 - January 22, 1986)	Victoria Woodhull	Nathaniel Hill Wright
Philip Wylie	Marguerite Yourcenar (June 8, 1903 – December 17, 1987)	Howard Zinn