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dc.contributor.authorCollay, Jay
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-30T07:11:21Z
dc.date.available2024-09-30T07:11:21Z
dc.date.created2022
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationJay Collay, A Queer Search for Ancestral Legitimacy: English-Language Gay Lists as Historical Memory Before 1969. Public History Review, 29 (2022), pp. 20–30it_IT
dc.identifier.issn1833-4989it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v29i0.8130it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/7378
dc.description.abstractThe practice among queer people of compiling lists of famous historical figures that modern eyes may comfortably identify as queer and/or trans* persists, and has persisted, as a form of communal transmission of memory for over a century and a half. These collections of names, described in this article as ‘gay lists’ in the spirit of their frequently casual deployment, acted as a key element of queer history and memory well before the Stonewall Uprising rooted itself in the popular consciousness as the beginning of queer history. This article explores English-language primary texts published in the US, the UK, and Italy between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries including personal statements in homophile magazines and Edward Prime-Stevenson’s book The Intersexes. The purpose of examining these texts is to discuss how gay lists were deployed to create a sense of a queer collective, a claim to history, and an imagination of ancestry in the wider consciousness. This article distinguishes lists naming recognizable historical figures from evocations of Greco-Roman mythology or Biblical antiquity. It also summarizes a brief selection of published literature describing the phenomenon so far and makes a case for exploring gay lists as a study in revisionist and popular historical memory.it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherJ. Collay, A Queer Search for Ancestral Legitimacy: English-Language Gay Lists as Historical Memory Before 1969. Public History Review, 29 (2022), pp. 20–30it_IT
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectHistorical memoryit_IT
dc.subjectQueerit_IT
dc.subjectHistoryit_IT
dc.subjectQueer historiographyit_IT
dc.subjectAnglophone historyit_IT
dc.subject19th centuryit_IT
dc.subject20th centuryit_IT
dc.titleA Queer Search for Ancestral Legitimacy. English-Language Gay Lists as Historical Memory Before 1969it_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPublic History Reviewit_IT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v29i0.8130it_IT
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