Queer Youth Histories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. What Is Queer Youth History?

   • Daniel Marshall

   Pages 1-40

3. Toward Psychosexual Development: Preliminaries to Queer Youth Prehistory

   • Diederik F. Janssen

   Pages 41-73

4. G. Stanley Hall and Perverse Plasticity in Modern Adolescence

   • Don Romesburg

   Pages 75-105

5. Same-Sex Desire and Young New Zealanders Before 1950

   • Chris Brickell

   Pages 107-133

6. “We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters”: Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World

   • Scott de Groot

   Pages 135-168

7. “Cherishing All the Children of the Nation Equally”: Gay Youth Organisation and Activism in Ireland

   • Patrick James McDonagh, Páraic Kerrigan

   Pages 169-191

8. The “New” Trans Child: Pioneering Families and Documentary Television

   • Jessica Ann Vooris

   Pages 193-224

9. Between Norms and Differences: The Online Histories of Québec’s Queer Youth

   • Roberto Ortiz Núñez, Dominique Meunier

   Pages 225-242

10. The Print Culture of Bombay Dost: Engaging the “Recent Past” of Queer Sexuality in India

    • Pawan Singh

    Pages 243-263

11. Tuning into Yourself: Queer Coming of Age and Music

    • Marion Wasserbauer

    Pages 265-290

12. Escaping to a Digital Congregation: LGBTQIA Mormon Youth on Tumblr and the Rise and Decline of Queerstake

    • David Eichert

    Pages 291-315

13. Historical and Contemporary Silences: The Experiences of Queer Muslim Youth

    • Shanon Shah

    Pages 317-345

14. Schoolgirl Lesbians in Hong Kong: (A)Historicity, Temporality, and Survival

    • Yuk Ying Sonia Wong

    Pages 347-370

15. Coda: Growing Up Needing the Past—An Activist’s Reflection on the History of LGBT History Month in the UK

    • Sue Sanders

    Pages 371-380

16. Coda: Being a Young Gay Person in the 1970s—Reflections on Reading Young, Gay and Proud

    • Karen Charman

    Pages 381-392

17. Coda: Small Histories

    • Laniyuk

    Pages 393-401

18. Afterword: Thoughts on “Queer,” “Youth,” and “Histories”

    • Jeffrey Weeks

    Pages 403-409

19. Back Matter

    Pages 411-426

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This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflection on youth, history and queer sexualities and genders. Since the 1970s there has been an explosion in research focusing on LGBTQ history and on the lives of LGBTQ young people, but these two research areas have seldom been brought together explicitly.
Bridging LGBTQ historical scholarship and contemporary queer youth cultural studies, this book marks out pathways for thinking more about youth in LGBTQ history and more about history in contemporary understandings of LGBTQ youth. Examining histories from the nineteenth century through to the recent past, contributors examine queer youth histories in continental Europe, Britain, the United States of America, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

• gender history
• adolescence
• homosexuality
• transgender childhood
• gay subcultures

• Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

  Daniel Marshall

Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and the Convenor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a past president of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York and at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University.

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