Help Create Content Re WW I Centennial for Outhistory.Org

H-Histsex Help create content re WW I Centennial for OutHistory.org

Discussion published by Jonathan Ned Katz on Thursday, January 30, 2014

OutHistory.org, the website on LGBTQ history, would like several scholars to create or direct the creation of an entry or entries relating to the Centennial of World War I. That war started in Europe on July 28, 1914. The U.S. Congress voted to declare war on April 6, 1917.

We’d like to publicly announce the entry online on July 1, 2014.

The entry or entries can include whatever inspires the creators.

Maybe one person would like to create an annotated bibliography of what research has been done about homoerotic relationships and WW I.

Maybe another person would like to coordinate this content creation.

The entries should include lots of great pictures.

Please respond to Jonathan Ned Katz: [email protected]

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To inspire you, here are some references of interest:

*In The Well of Loneliness Stephen Gordon finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I.

*The lush homoerotic watercolors of soldiers by John Singer Sargent.

*During World War I, Gertrude Stein bought a Ford van, and she and Alice Toklas served as ambulance drivers for the French.

*Magnus Hirschfeld, The Sexual History of the World War, (New York: Cadillac Publishing Co., 1941).

*Deborah Cohler. Citizen, Invert, Queer : Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, March 2010.

*George Chauncey Jr., “Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era,” in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin Dauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey Jr. (New York: New American Library, 1989), 294-317.

*Laura Doan. Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War. University Of Chicago Press (May 1, 2013) “Set against the backdrop of women’s work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, Disturbing Practices draws on a substantial body of new archival material.”

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*Bromances in novels, poetry, and films about WW I? In a classic scene of male bonding from the great novel of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer and his comrade, Kat, prepare a meal together. Homoeroticism in poetry by Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sassoon?

Queer memoirs of WW I?

I look forward to inquiries

Jonathan Ned Katz

Founder, Co-Director,

OutHistory.org

Publications:

*Coming of Age in Greenwich Village (2013)

*Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001)

*The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995)

*Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary History (1983)

*Gay American History: Lesbian and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976)

*Coming Out! A Documentary Play About

Gay & Lesbian Life & Liberation (1972; published 1975)

*Inquest at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana,

Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851 (1974)

*Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince (1973)

Art Website: jnkArt.com