A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America

A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America by Rupp, Leila J.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226731551.

With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries. "Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupps indeed short, two-hundred-page history of same-sex love and sexuality is not that it manages to account for such a variety of individuals, races, and classes or take in such a broad chronological and thematic range, but rather that it does all this with such verve, lucidity, and analytical rigor. . . . [A]n elegant, inspiring survey." —John Howard, Journal of American History