Same-sex dynamics among nineteenth-century Americans
Subtitle: a Mormon example
By: D. Michael Quinn.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century; Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- History of doctrines -- 19th century; Mormons -- United States -- Sexual behavior; Mormon gays -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Mormon Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: Same-sex dynamics among 19th century Americans
Description: What were same-sex relationships like in America's heartland during the nineteenth century, far from the Bohemian enclaves of New York City and San Francisco?

The extraordinary answer - that same-sex intimacy was widely accepted - is found in D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans, which traces the incidence of and response to same-sex behaviors in the United States to the midtwentieth century. It will be must reading for anyone interested in gay and lesbian issues and the changing concepts of friendship and sexuality.

This book will be of special interest to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, religious leaders, psychiatrists, and physicians, as well as to Mormons. A respected scholar of Mormon social history, Quinn demonstrates the extent of early America's acceptance of same-sex intimacy, charting the nation's descent into homophobia by examining Mormonism as a case study of middle America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cross-cultural perspective on same-sex dynamics; title: The homosocial; title: The homopastoral and homotactile; title: The homoemotional and homoromantic; title: The homomarital, gender-roles, and cross-dressing; title: Same-sex couples, homoenvironmental subcultures, and the census; title: The earliest community study of lesbians and gay males in America : Salt Lake City; title: The coming-out of three prominent Mormons in 1919; title: Homoeroticism and sex crimes in early Mormonism and pioneer Utah; title: Utah's judicial and medical responses : the Wilde case to 1918; title: From relative tolerance to homophobia in twentieth-century Mormonism.