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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1 | The History Cooperative
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Book Review

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality. By Jonathan Ned Katz. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 426 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-42615-7.)
Little more than a decade ago, John D'Emilio observed in this journal that scholarship in gay history was so limited that someone "could read it all during a single summer and still take a leisurely vacation" (Sept. 1989 JAH, p. 440). More than a summer's reading would be required today, but the work of the independent scholar Jonathan Ned Katz would still be central to the inquiry. Katz's 1976 work Gay American History truly broke a path, documenting a long tradition of erotically charged same-sex involvements in our society. His new book draws extensively on scholarship that Katz himself set in motion a quarter of a century ago, yet Love Stories also strengthens its author's reputation as an innovator. . . .
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