#martin duberman

[halogen2]

from the digital transgender archive - "photographs of Sylvia Rivera protesting the 1996 "Stonewall" film with a group including Ivan Valentin, Cocoa Rodriguez, Randy Wicker, and Martin Duberman" & "a photograph of Sylvia Rivera with Cocoa Rodriguez holding Stonewall posters protesting the 1996 Stonewall film premiere"

[actually-a-dyke]

Stonewall by Martin Duberman, 1993, pages 75-77

[nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife]

#30DaysofPride: Day 21- Essex Hemphill

I wrote this post last year when I was interning at CLAGS and so it’s a little CLAGS-centered but I really like this one!!! So today I bring you an important person in the black gay community, Essex Hemphill. Property of the estate of Robert Giard Essex Hemphill was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeast Washington, DC. A poet and performer known for his political edge, he openly addressed…

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

A noted historian and leading gay activist describes his personal struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his search for a therapy that could transform him into a "normal" man

Historian, playwright, gay activist, Duberman was treated for some 20 years by a succession of psychotherapists who attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. How he gradually came to embrace his sexual orientation as normal is the focus of this searingly candid, sometimes painful, affecting autobiography-- one man's odyssey from self-sabotage to self-acceptance.

Coming out, for Duberman, was a tortuous process that led him from anarchism to yoga to men's consciousness-raising groups. One therapist berated him for his "refusal to change"; another denounced him as "passive" and "devious," and when a fellow therapy-group member physically attacked the author the therapist did nothing to intervene. Including a frank account of his love affairs, this intense confessional is full of witty self-deflation as Duberman critiques his own stances on political, sexual and intellectual debates of the last three decades.

[mad-rieux]

Tim Robbins reads Martin Duberman, “Stonewall”

[sheiladelaney]

Martin Bauml Duberman, from About Time: Exploring the Gay Past, 1986. 

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Daniel Villarreal at LGBTQ Nation:

The once progressive New College of Florida has trashed hundreds of books—including numerous LGBTQ+ titles from its now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center—instead of giving the books to students or re-selling them as allowed by state law, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported. The college, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has tried to make more conservative, threw out the books on Tuesday afternoon. Students were neither on campus nor notified of the books’ removal, even though students have been given opportunities in the past to purchase books removed from the college’s library collection. In this case, local activists retrieved some of the books before they were taken off campus.

Photos showed feminist and LGBTQ+ books among the trashed titles, including Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell, When I Knew by Robert Trachtenberg, and Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Martin Duberman.

New College spokesperson Nathan March called the aforementioned reporting about the books’ removal false. March said that the books were trashed as part of the campus libraries’ “routine maintenance” and because the college’s gender studies program no longer exists. The college’s board of trustees eliminated the program shortly after DeSantis appointed numerous conservatives board members. March said that Florida Statute 237 forbids books purchased with state funds from being donated or sold. However, the statute states that the college can dispose of state-funded property by transferring it to a private nonprofit agency or selling it openly to the public.

[...] DeSantis said he planned to turn New College into the “Hillsdale of the South,” a reference to the private and infamously conservative Christian college in Michigan.  In January 2023, DeSantis appointed six new members to the New College’s board of trustees who were loyal to him and his ideology – including far-right anti-LGBTQ+ activist Christopher Rufo. The college had a reputation for being progressive and queer-friendly, but Rufo said earlier this year that the goal of what has been described as a “hostile takeover of a liberal college” was to “provide an alternative for conservative families in the state of Florida to say there is a public university that reflects your values.” “If we can take this high-risk, high-reward gambit and turn it into a victory, we’re going to see conservative state legislators starting to reconquer public institutions all over the United States,” Rufo said.

The Rufo-ization of New College of Florida continues to yield disastrous results, this time by throwing away hundreds of books (most of which had feminist and/or LGBTQ+ themes) that were formerly housed in the now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center.

[lizbethborden]

Hi again! Yeah, from your bookshelf! You seem well informed and I wanna know the type of stuff you read and might recommend. I don't even know what to tell you for my interests because I feel like I'm just begining. Sorry I'm young and dumb still haha.

#1 you're not dumb and #2 nothing to apologize for :)

Here's some books I've got on my shelves or that I've read:

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, Laura Bates

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights, Katha Pollitt

Women, Race, & Class, Angela Davis

American Girls, Nancy Jo Sales

Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, eds. Julia Penelope and Susan J Wolf

Lesbian Studies, Margaret Cavendish

Hood Feminism, Mikki Kendall

Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria

Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together, eds Joan Nestle and John Preston

Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn

Aimee & Jaguar, Erica Fischer

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, ed. Briona Simone Jones

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell

The Mary Daly Reader, eds. Jennifer Rycenga and Linda Barufaldi

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey Jr.

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society, Cordelia Fine

Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father's Tongue, Julia Penelope

The Resisting Reader, Judith Fetterley

The Double X Economy, Linda Scott

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, ed. Roxane Gay

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists, Joan Smith

Intercourse, Andrea Dworkin

The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women, Scott Stern

The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory, Marilyn Frye

Only Words, Catharine A. Mackinnon

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution, Jennifer Block

Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, Anne Llwellyn Barstow

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado-Perez

Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Values, Sarah Lucia Hoagland

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement, Andi Zeisler

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, Adrienne Rich

Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew, Lynda Birke

The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Susan Rubin Suleiman

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, Virginia L Blum

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Patricia Hill Collins

Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, Gail Dines

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi

From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Marilyn French

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Seeing Like a Feminist, Nivedita Menon

With Her Machete In Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians, Catriona Reuda Esquibel

The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture, Bonnie J. Morris

Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, Christopher Nealon

The Persistent Desire: A Butch/Femme Reader, ed. Joan Nestle

The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Monique Wittig

The Trouble Between us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Winifred Breines

Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin

Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin

Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessica Crispin

Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women, Leila J Rupp

I tried to avoid too many left turns into my specific interests although if you passionately want to know any of those, I can make you some more lists LOL

I would suggest picking a book that sounds interesting and using the footnotes and bibliography to find more to read. I've done that a lot :) a lot of my books have more sticky tabs or w/e in the bibliography than in the text so I don't lose stuff I'm interested in.

Hope this helps!

[pridemandalas]

Source: Gay Community News (June 1994) Vol 20, No. 1 & 2 . Stonewall Stories Part I of II. Stonewall: myth and reality by Michael Bronski. https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews2001gayc/mode/2up?q=stonewall)

Read a recounting of the Stonewall Rebellion written by historian, Martin Duberman: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/dubermanstonewall.html

Martin Boyce gives an account of the Stonewall Riots. Boyce was present during the riots, and has become an advocate and storyteller:

[world-literatures]

non-fiction around the world → books about various countries that I have enjoyed. included where the book gives some insight into the country itself, or it's history, culture or politics rather than books by people from that place in general

australia

my story by julia gillard - australia's first female prime minister's memoir

crossing the line: australia's secret history in the timor sea by kim mcgrath - an expose on australia's activities in the timor sea

dark emu by bruce pascoe - reexamination of Indigenous Australian cultures to argue against the common belief Indigenous peoples were a hunter-gatherer society

deep time dreaming: uncovering ancient australia by billy griffiths - ancient archeology in australia, and how learnings taken inform more about the ten thousand year old Indigenous cultures on the continent, in turn altering the idea of ownership, place and history in a colonised country

canberra by paul daley - a history on the capital city of australia, how it came to be, and it's unique character

mirror sydney: an atlas of reflections by vanessa berry - a book memorialising sydney through the authors various memories of specific places in the city

czech republic

the golden maze: a biography of prague - history of the city of prague, which dips into czech history more broadly. starts with the authors experience visiting prague during the velvet revolution

france

how paris became paris: the invention of the modern city by joan dejean - history of paris and the projects which developed it and ultimately defined the modern city

india

among tigers: fighting to bring back asia's big cats by ullas karanth - tiger conservation in india, with a focus on the the political and cultural landscape around the issue

italy

SPQR: a history of ancient rome by mary beard - detailed history of ancient rome & how it informed modern italy

palestine

the ethnic cleansing of palestine by ilan pappe - details history of israel/palestine with a focus on the ethnic cleansing during the nakba

south africa

black bull, ancestors and me: My life as a lesbian sangoma by nkunzi zandile nkabinde - a memoir which outlines the history of gayness in south africa

united states of america

stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in america by ibram x. kendi - traces the origins/roots of racism specifically in america to current day, to show how today's society is impacted and informed by history. by far the most illuminating book on the topic I have read

stonewall by martin duberman - a definitive history of the stonewall riots told through the lives of six prominent figures at the time. my favourite piece of media on the topic

vietnam

the penguin history of modern vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha - a history of vietnam from ancient times through to post-vietnam war

[portlandwithyou]

Help Me Choose My Next Book

More information about each choice under the read more

Stonewall- Martin Duberman (Nonfiction, 349pgs): A history of the Stonewall riots. I bought this book in like... summer 2021? I keep meaning to read it, but also I am very worried about geting emotional while reading it. I love queer history but it makes me weep.

Anthology of Emo, Vol 2 - Edited by Tom Mullen (Nonfiction, 361): A collection of interviews from the Washed Up Emo podcast. Includes interviews with some of the guys from Jimmy Eat World, Saves the Day, Braid, Piebald, etc. Of note, I don't think I've listened to any of the episodes that are transcribed here. I got this as a birthday gift in 2021 from my partner. Only haven't read it because the book is a weird shape. Tempted to read this one since I see Braid in a couple of weeks.

The Order of Time- Carlo Rovelli (Nonfiction, 212): This was an impulse purchase in the fall of 2022. It's a pop science book about time. Not entirely sure why I bought it, but I think I might have just read a different pop sci book about physics and I wanted to recapture that vibe.

Where it All Went Wrong- Dan Ozzi (Nonfiction Zine, 84): I bought this in April of this year. It's a zine from one of my favorite music writers right now discussing the albums that shaped him. His full length Sellout is one of the best books I've read in the last couple of years. If picked, I could read it all in one sitting.

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher- Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz (Nonfiction, 400): This was a birthday gift from my dad in I think 2020. The only thing that's prevented me from reading this in the past is that it's a thick hardback that looks like it might be pretty dense.

Underground- Haruki Murakami (Nonfiction, 364): This is my most recent purchase from May of this year. It's one of Murakami's non-fiction books. I bought it for a number of reasons- I'm interested in the Tokyo Gas Attack, I like the writing of Murakami, and I wanted to read some of Murakami's nonfiction. I'm particularly interested in this book but worried about reading it first since its my newest purchase.

IQ840 Haruki Murakami (Fiction, 928): I always forget I own this book since I have the digital copy. I quite like digital reading so that isn't a problem, but you know what they say. Out of sight, out of mind. I've read about the first 150 or so pages of the book and I really enjoyed it. I don't know why I stopped, but I put it down a couple of years ago and never picked it back up. I know Murakami has his fair share of critics, and I can't argue with anything they say, but I like his stuff and I've read a few of his books. Fiction isn't really my normal wheelhouse, but I make a big exception for him.

[actually-a-dyke]

Hold Tight Gently Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman, pages 29-30, 2014

[npdclaraoswald]

I bought Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past ed by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey Jr and it got here today, and holy shit is it thicker than I expected. But on the plus side, the table of contents makes it seem like it's actually gonna take a global perspective, not just the US and Europe. Still only one chapter on Africa and none on Latin America, but that's more than these types of books usually have

[cancersyndrome]

‘I love people, regardless of their gender,’ " —

Charlotte Wolff, “Early Influences,” Bisexuality, a Study (1979)

“…the very wealth and humanity of bisexuality itself: for to exclude from one’s love any entire group of human beings because of class, age, or race or religion, or sex, is surely to be poorer — deeply and systematically poorer.” —

Kate Miller (1974)

“It’s easier, I believe, for exclusive heterosexuals to tolerate (and that’s the word) exclusive homosexuals than [bisexuals] who, rejecting exclusivity, sleep with people not genders…”—

Martin Duberman (1974)

‘cultivated bisexuality out of a delight with personality, regardless of race or class or sex.’” and “Being bisexual does not mean they have sexual relations with both sexes but that they are capable of meaningful and intimate involvement with a person regardless of gender.” —

Janet Bode, “From Myth to Maturation,” View From Another Closet: Exploring Bisexuality in Women (1976)

There are several oofs here, but 50 year old oofs with people trying to define their bisexuality.

J: Are we ever going to be able to define what bisexuality is? S: Never completely. That’s just it – the variety of lifestyles that we see between us defies definition.

Boston Bisexual Women’s Network Newsletter, January 1984

I believe most of us will end up acknowledging that we love certain people or, perhaps, certain kinds of people, and that gender need not be a significant category, though for some of us it may be.

From an issue of Bi Women: the Newsletter of the Boston Bisexual Women’s Network, 1986

I am bisexual because I am drawn to particular people regardless of gender. It doesn’t make me wishy-washy, confused, untrustworthy, or more sexually liberated. It makes me a bisexual.

”The Bisexual Community: Are We Visible Yet?”, The 1987 March On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1987

Bisexuals fall in love with a person, not a gender

A bisexual’s survey response in Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism, Weise, 1992

[jimneighbors]

Hey! Sorry to bother you, but I saw a comment you made on a post about lgbt history and your thesis and I was wondering if you happen to have any book recommendations? I just read A Queer History of the United States and it didn't really have what I hoped it would (specifically, it had barely anything about trans people). I've been hoping to find someone who might know some good lgbt history books!

hi! no bother at all- i’m sorry it took me so long to respond! i’m looking through my sources now and i’m realizing that there are also very few i found that specifically feature trans people, unfortunately. :( it’s been a long time since i picked up any of these though, so they may actually have more than i remember! and on the flip side of that, there may be some outdated terms and ideas in them since i was gathering a few different eras. here’s some of the books that i remember pulling from the most:

- Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

- Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Duberman

- The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman

- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts

- Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

i hope this helps! i had been meaning to go back through my thesis for a few years but i haven’t made the time for it, so thank you for getting my head back in that academic space :)

[frameacloud]

Here is the source for that quote:

Martin Duberman, ed. "Twenty-five years after Stonewall: Looking backward, moving forward; A symposium with Cheryl Clarke, Martin Duberman, Jim Kepner, Karl Bruce Knapper, Joan Nestle, and Carmen Vazquez." A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York University Press, 1997, pp 266-267.

You can read part of the book online to see it in context. Joan Nestle (she/her) is the one reading the quote, but the Jewish woman it's about is anonymous. Joan Nestle is a cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives (which are transgender inclusive) and editor of Genderqueer.

The anonymous Jewish woman is referring to The Well of Loneliness, a novel written in 1928 by Radclyffe Hall. Biographers usually call Hall she/her, but Hall's pronoun preference is unstated and unclear for a variety of historical and autobiographical reasons. Hall self-described as a female invert, which was a contemporary category of queer identity that included lesbian women, bisexuals, butches, and transgender man, as we would now put it. Hall made no secret of having been assigned female at birth, but generally used masculine expression in attire, name, gesture, and more. Hall's stated intention with writing the novel was to end silence about inversion (queerness) and bring about tolerance. Drawn from Hall's own life story and friends, the novel portrays the life of a female invert as one of sadness, isolation, self-hatred, and rejection, but also as a natural, God-given state, deserving of rights. As very old books do, the novel has passed into the public domain, so you can read it all for free in Project Gutenberg.

“I had a chance to read a copy of The Well of Loneliness that had been translated into Polish before I was taken into the camps. I was a young girl at the time, around twelve or thirteen, and one of the ways I survived the camp was by remembering that book. I wanted to live long enough to kiss a woman.”

— A Jewish woman in conversation at the Lesbian Herstory Archives