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Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States.
From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns the focus inward, showing that the intimacy of domestic space has been equally crucial to the history of postwar LGBTQ life.
Beginning in the 1940s, LGBTQ activists looked increasingly to the home as a site of connection, care, and cultural inclusion. They struggled against the conventions of marriage, challenged the gendered codes of everyday labor, reimagined domestic architecture, and contested the racial and class boundaries of kinship and belonging. Retelling LGBTQ history from the inside out, Vider reveals the surprising ways that the home became, and remains, a charged space in battles for social and economic justice, making it clear that LGBTQ people not only realized new forms of community and culture for themselves—they remade the possibilities of home life for everyone.
Contents
Introduction: The Politics and Performance of Home
Part One. Integrations
Chapter One. "Something of a Merit Badge": Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment
Chapter Two. "Oh Hell, May, Why Don't You People Have a Cookbook?": Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity
Part Two. Revolutions
Chapter Three. "The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community": Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household
Chapter Four. "Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation": Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture
Part Three. Reforms
Chapter Five. "Some Hearts Go Hungering": Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism
Chapter Six. "Picture a Coalition": Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home
Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
