Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Long Before Stonewall 1 Thomas A. Foster part i Colonial Native Americas 1 Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status Among American Indian Men in the Southwest 19 Ramón A. Gutiérrez 2 Weibe-Town and the Delawares-as-Women: Gender Crossing and Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Northeastern Indian Culture 32 Gunlög Fur 3 “Abominable Sin” in Colonial New Mexico: Spanish and Pueblo Perceptions of Same-Sex Sexuality 51 Tracy Brown part ii Colonial British America 4 “The Cry of Sodom”: Discourse, Intercourse, and Desire in Colonial New England 81 Richard Godbeer 5 Border Crossings: The Queer Erotics of Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century New England 114 Anne G. Myles 6 Hermaphrodites and “Same-Sex” Sex in Early America 144 Elizabeth Reis vii 7 Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia 164 Clare A. Lyons part iii Romantic Bonds in the Early Republic 8 An Excerpt from Surpassing the Love of Men 207 Lillian Faderman 9 Leander, Lorenzo, and Castalio: An Early American Romance 217 Caleb Crain 10 The Swan of Litchfield: Sarah Pierce and the Lesbian Landscape Poem 253 Lisa L. Moore part iv Reformers in the New Nation 11 Sexual Desire, Crime, and Punishment in the Early Republic 279 Mark E. Kann 12 The Black Body Erotic and the Republican Body Politic, 1790–1820 303 John Saillant 13 What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Marriage versus Circulation in The Pennsylvania Magazine, 1775–1776 331 Laura Mandell 14 In a French Position: Radical Pornography and Homoerotic Society in Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond or the Secret Witness 357 Stephen Shapiro Afterword 384 John D’Emilio About the Contributors 391 Index 393 About the Editor 405 viii Contents ...