Queer is here? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender histories and public culture

History Workshop Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 253-263

  Mills, Robert ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbl006     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Peter Tatchell, 'Inside the Gay Museum', Guardian, G2: Arts, 8 June 2004, p. 14.
2. A detailed website, outlining the rationale for the project, as well as a calendar of events, is available at http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk (last accessed 15 June 2006).
3. See http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk (last accessed 20 June 2006).
4. For details of the tours, see http://www.kairosinsoho.org.uk/tours.asp (last accessed 15 June 2006).
5. Jack Gilbert, 'National Pride', Museums Journal 106: 2, 2006, pp. 18-19 Information about Proud Heritage is available at http://www.proudheritage.org (last accessed 10 July 2006). A 'virtual museum' of proud heritage will be posted on the website from 14 July 2006.
6. George Pascoe-Watson, 'Outrage Over Gay Month in Schools',
7. Richard Littlejohn, 'Schools Encouraged to Celebrate Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Month - Opinion',
8. and Anon., 'The Sun Says - Not Wanted', Sun, 21 Jan. 2005.
9. Press coverage of the 2006 LGBT History Month included Steve Doughty's similarly insensitive article, 'Lessons in Gay History for Pupils Aged Seven', Daily Mail, 4 Jan. 2006.
10. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, Berkeley, 1990
11. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction, transl. Robert Hurley, London, 1978.
12. Carolyn Dinshaw, 'Got Medieval?', Journal of the History of Sexuality 10: 2, 2001, pp. 202-12 (p. 204).
13. On male inversion, see David M. Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality, Chicago, 2002, pp. 121-30
14. for a discussion of female masculinities in pre modern cultures, see Karma Lochrie, Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't, Minneapolis, 2005.
15. Karma Lochrie, 'Presumptive Sodomy and its Exclusions', Textual Practice 13: 2, 1999, pp. 295-310.
16. Alan Sinfield, 'Transgender and Les/Bi/Gay Identities', in Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries, ed. David Alderson and Linda Anderson, Manchester, 2000, pp. 150-65 (p. 157).
17. Alan Sinfield, 'The Challenge of Transgender, the Moment of Stonewall, and Neil Bartlett', GLQ 10: 2, 2004, pp. 267-72 (pp. 268-9).
18. Alan Bray, The Friend, Chicago, 2003.
19. For analyses of the turn to friendship in queer history, see Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality, pp. 117-21
20. Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship Between Men, 1550-1800, ed. Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke, Basingstoke and New York, 2003
21. The Work of Friendship: In Memoriam Alan Bray, ed. Jody Greene, special issue of GLQ 10: 3, 2004
22. Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800, ed. Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin, Basingstoke and New York, 2005.
23. Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics, New York, 2002, p. 63.
24. For example, see Mark W. Turner, Backward Glances: Cruising the Queer Streets of London and New York, London, 2003.
25. See Queer Archaeologies, ed. Thomas A. Dowson, special issue of World Archaeology 32: 2, 2000, which nonetheless remains grounded for the most part in challenging the 'presumptive heterosexuality' of archaeological scholarship, rather than deepening the critique to explore the ways in which material culture itself resonates queerly.
26. Rictor Norton, The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity, London, 1997.
27. Norton, Myth of the Modern Homosexual, p. 21.
28. For a detailed engagement with these issues, see Halperin, How to Do the History of Homosexuality, pp. 13-17.
29. Judith Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, New York, 2005, pp. 44-5.
30. Norton presents a detailed analysis of such lists in Myth of the Modern Homosexual, pp. 219-26, but misreads them as expressions of actual cultural unity.
31. For analyses that present them as theoretical strategies rather than objective embodiments of reality, see Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man? A Present for Oscar Wilde, London, 1988, pp. 197-200,
32. and Alan Stewart, 'Homosexuals in History: A. L. Rowse and the Queer Archive', in Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Friendship, ed. O'Donnell and O'Rourke, pp. 53-69.
33. For a comparable analysis of the possibilities for exhibitions with a feminist slant, see Gaby Porter, 'Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums', in Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, ed. Bettina Messias Carbonell, Oxford, 2004, pp. 104-16.
34. On the creation of queer public cultures through an archive of emotional experience and memory, see Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures, Durham, NC, 2003. Queer is Here? 263