by Sarah Prager
“Come out of hiding”: Gallo, 31.
“What a delicious invitation . . .”: Gallo, 31.
“I’m glad as heck that you exist”: Gallo, 21.
“When [we] first got together . . .”: Lagos.
Sylvia Rivera
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Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. New York: St. Martin’s, 2004.
Frey, Holly. Stuff You Missed in History Class. “Sylvia Rivera.” Podcast audio, October 8, 2014. www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/sylvia-rivera/.
History Is a Weapon. “Our Armies Are Rising and We Are Getting Stronger.” Accessed April 30, 2016. www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/riverarisingandstronger.html.
National Parks Conservation Association. “A National Park for Stonewall.” Youtube.com/watch?v=9QiigzZCE+Q. August 18, 2016. https://www.npca.org/advocacy/5-a-national-park-for-stonewall.
New York Times Magazine. “Sylvia Rivera.” June 27, 1999. www.soundportraits.org/in-print/magazine_articles/sylvia _rivera.
Rivera, Sylvia. “Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones.” In GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, edited by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, and Riki Wilchins, 67–85. New York: Alyson Books, 2002.
Sandeen, Autumn. “In Revolution, the Trans Terms Sylvia Rivera Used.” The Trans Advocate. April 30, 2014. www.transadvocate.com/in-revolution-the-trans-terms-sylvia-rivera-used_n_13623.htm.
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press. Accessed June 17, 2016. www.transadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/STAR_Pamphlet.pdf.
“Sylvia Rivera—Y’all better quiet down (1973).” Sylvia speaking at NYC Pride 1973. YouTube video, 4:08. Posted by Luz Violeta, October 22, 2014.www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiigzZCEtQ.
Workers World Service. “Leslie Feinberg interviews Sylvia Rivera.” Accessed June 17, 2016. www.workers.org/ww/1998/sylvia0702.php.
“Why don’t you guys do something!”: Carter, 151.
“My God, the revolution . . .”: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, 14.
“Saw the world change . . .”: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, 14.
Marsha P. Johnson, mentioned as Sylvia’s friend, is another important founder of the queer rights movement who was just as much a leader as Sylvia.
“I had to fight my way . . .”: History Is a Weapon.
“You all tell me . . .”: “Sylvia Rivera.”
“I feel that both of us being transgendered . . .”: New York Times Magazine.
Renée Richards
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ESPN. Renée. Directed by Eric Drath. Owensboro, KY: Team Marketing, 2011. DVD, 73 minutes.
Richards, Renée, with John Ames. No Way Renée: The Second Half of my Notorious Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
———. Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
The way Renée’s life and transition is described is based on her own detailed account of it in Second Serve, No Way Renée, and Renée, including the times male pronouns and the name Dick Raskind are used.
“Stuff”: Renée.
“Disgusted”: Renée.
“So drastic”: Renée.
“Wanted nothing more . . .”: Richards, 2007, 81.
“I’ll take a sex test . . .”: Renée.
Harvey Milk
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Richter, Miriam. Re: A New Book Featuring Harvey Milk. E-mail. December 8, 2016.
Shilts, Randy. The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. New York: St. Martin’s, 1982.
Sward, Susan. “Scott Smith—Harvey Milk Friend.” San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 1995.
Telling Pictures Distribution. The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen. San Francisco: Black Sand Productions, 1984. DVD, 88 minutes.
Weiss, Mike. Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
“You get the first bullet . . .”: Shilts, 223.
“Let me remind you what America is”: Shilts, 225.
“Yes, We Are Very Open”: Shilts, 65.
“Tell all your friends . . .”: Shilts, 162.
“You can stand around . . .”: Shilts, 190.
“Change is counterproductive . . .”: Shilts, 199.
“Harvey, can I see you . . .”: Weiss, 253.
“If a bullet should . . .”: Shilts, 372.
Glenn Burke
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Branch, John. “Posthumous Recognition: M.L.B to Recognize Glenn Burke as Baseball’s Gay Pioneer.” New York Times, July 14, 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/sports/baseball/mlb-to-recognize-glenn-burke-as-a-gay-pioneer-in-baseball.html.
Burke, Glenn, with Erik Sherman. Out at Home: The True Story of Glenn Burke, Baseball’s First Openly Gay Player. New York: Berkley Books, 1995.
Harris, Doug. “The Price Glenn Burke Paid for Coming Out.” Interview by Kelly McEvers. All Things Considered. NPR, May 5, 2013. www.npr.org/2013/05/05/181410089/the-price-glenn-burke-paid-for-coming-out.
Mooallem, Jon. “The History (and Mystery) of the High Five.” In The Best American Sports Writing 2012, edited by Michael Wilbon, 345–52. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Richmond, Peter. “The Brief Life and Complicated Death of Tommy Lasorda’s Gay Son.” Deadspin: The Stacks (blog). April 30, 2013. http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-brief-life-and-complicated-death-of-tommy-lasordas-485999366.
Spencer, Lyle. “Dodgers of ’77 Recall High-Five-Fueled Run to Series.” MLB.com, October 14, 2013. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/62943568.
Watson, Owen. “Glenn Burke’s Potential Still Haunts Mike Norris.” The Hardball Times, July 21, 2015. http://www.hardballtimes.com/glenn-burkes-potential-still-haunts-mike-norris/
“No faggot . . .”: Burke, 68.
“Baseball suicide”: Burke, 47.
“Tommy first would have shot us . . .”: Burke, 24–25.
“Everybody on this team is married . . .”: Burke, 9.
“His hand was up in the air . . .”: Mooallem, 347.
“A legacy of two men’s hands touching”: Mooallem, 350.
“As I reach my final days . . .”: Burke, 159.
Mychal Judge
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Daly, Michael. The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge. New York: St. Martin’s, 2008.
Ford, Michael. Father Mychal Judge: An Authentic American Hero. New York: Paulist, 2002.
“Mychal, please pray for us.” “I always do.”: Ford, 7.
“You should go, Padre.” “I’m not finished.”: Daly, 332.
“Jesus, please end this right now!”: Daly, 336.
“Peest”: Daly, 5.
“My rival was God”: Daly, 127.
“An intrinsic moral evil”: Ford, 119.
“They did the same to Jesus”: Ford, 121.
“Lit up the White House”: Ford, 196.
“There were between two and three hundred . . .”: Ford, 196.
George Takei
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“From the Vault: George Takei Comes Out.” Interview by Alexander Cho, February 21, 2012. www.frontiersmedia.com/frontiers-blog/2012/02/21/from-the-vault-george-takei-comes-out.
“George Takei Interview #8: Coming Out Publicly.” YouTube video, 2:52. Posted by DiscoverNikkei, June 18, 2015. https://youtu.be/MoIdf_qrpAI.
“Howard Stern 1990 George Takei’s first appearance.” YouTube video, 1:24. Posted by Rx1922, October 20, 2013. https://youtu.be/cNBLEPCw1Vo.
Takei, George. “Takei Wedding.” Accessed June 7, 2016. http://georgetakei.com/takei-wedding.
———. To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu. New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
“Long vacation in the country”: Takei, To the Stars, 11–12.
“Oh, no, no, no, no, no”: “Howard Stern.”
“Over the more than twenty-one year
s . . .”: Takei, “Takei Wedding.”
Glossary
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Beredjick, Camille. “DSM-V to Rename Gender Identity Disorder ‘Gender Dysphoria.’” The Advocate. July 23, 2012. http://www.advocate.com/politicstransgender/2012/07/23/dsm-replaces-gender-identity-disorder-gender-dysphoria.
Killermann, Sam. “Comprehensive* List of LGBTQ+ Term Definitions.” It’s Pronounced Metrosexual. Accessed February 3, 2016. http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2013/01/a-comprehensive-list-of-lgbtq-term-definitions.
National Center for Lesbian Rights. “#BornPerfect: The Facts about Conversion Therapy.” Accessed January 25, 2017. www.nclrights.org/bornperfect-the-facts-about-conversion-therapy.
NativeOUT. “Two Spirit 101.” Accessed June 15, 2016. http://nativeout.com/twospirit-rc/two-spirit-101.
PFLAG. “PFLAG National Glossary of Terms.” Accessed June 9, 2016. https://www.pflag.org/glossary.
Rictor, Norton. “The Term ‘Homosexual.’” A Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory. Accessed June 15, 2016. http://rictornorton.co.uk/social14.htm.
Roxie, Marilyn. “Genderqueer History.” Genderqueer and Non-Binary Identities. Accessed June 15, 2016. http://genderqueerid.com/gqhistory.
Williams, Cristan. “Tracking Transgender: The Historical Truth.” Ehipassiko. July 26, 2012. www.cristanwilliams.com/b/2012/03/27/tracking-transgender-the-historical-truth.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book wouldn’t exist without Sara Sargent, my editor at HarperCollins Children’s, who conceived this project and brought the opportunity to me. She saw where it needed to go and made it happen. Thank you doesn’t begin to cover it. You changed my life for the better.
I couldn’t have written this without Rebecca Faith Heyman, who edited every word of this book with the valuable combination of patience, speed, and talent. I’m beyond grateful she came on board this project. I’d also like to thank my agent, Carrie Howland, who has been a wonderful resource and team member through the whole process. I’m so grateful for all of her support. I’d also like to thank the remarkable Anna Prendella for her tireless work on this book. Dillan DiGiovanni, Renée Cafiero, Megan Gendell, Zoë More O’Ferrall, Leila Rupp, Anna Ellis, Desiree Alaniz, Jakob VanLammeren, Adriana Sisko, Jeanne Glynn, Tracy and Matt Barry, Audra Friend, Debbie Richards, Susan Spann, Robbie Samuels, Susan Stryker, Carolyn and Benjamin Oliver, Matt Lyons, Stuart Milk, Miriam Richter, Rebecca Mui, Robyn Ochs, Shane Bitney Crone, Kevin Jennings, Meredith Russo, Sarah McCarry, José Gutierrez, Nancy Moline, Stacey Endress, Mitchell Thorpe, Audrey Diestelkamp, Alison Klapthor, Liz Byer, Roger Cantello, the staff and services of the Wallingford Public Library, and many others helped as well.
I’d also like to thank the entire Quist team. They’re all listed at quistapp.com/supporters, but I have to thank Chris Zahka by name here. I will always be grateful for his significant early support that made Quist a reality.
I also acknowledge the individuals profiled in this book. For some, it wasn’t possible to gain their permission to tell their stories, but I hope that the fact they lived so openly means they would approve. Each one has inspired me personally, and I am proud to stand on the shoulders of such amazing people. I also owe a huge debt to the researchers and writers who created all the books and resources I consulted that made it possible for me to tell their stories here.
I’d also like to acknowledge the individuals who didn’t make it into this book. My vision for Queer, There, and Everywhere was much more geographically diverse, but time and research limitations caused me to lose some of the stories I most wanted to tell, like that of Francisco Manicongo. I spent the majority of my time on this book looking in vain for enough detail to make successful chapters out of these people’s stories, but the records were too sparse to make strong narratives for this format. I promise them I will continue to tell what we do know of their stories elsewhere and personally remember them.
My whole family—especially my parents, Bev and Rich Prager; my aunt, Mel Julian; and my sister, Alex Scalfano—supported me in so many ways through the process of writing this book. My wife, Liz Prager, played the largest role. I couldn’t do any of this without her, and even if I could, I definitely wouldn’t want to. Liz, you have supported this crazy quistory career from the moment I randomly started doing research because I felt like it one day in 2013. For always being my first editor, assistant researcher, and cheerleader, this book is yours, too. You never fail to step up when I need you, and I’m so lucky to have you.
And to our sweet baby, Eleanor Hermione, who grew in me as I wrote this book: your moms love you so very much. Thanks for your input with the well-timed kicks. I wish for you Sylvia’s strength, Harvey’s courage, Del and Phyllis’s dedication, and above all, a loving and safe world we’ll help to create together.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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SARAH PRAGER is an activist, public speaker, and writer. She is the founder and director of Quist, a free mobile app that brings queer history to the world. Sarah has written about LGBTQ history for the Huffington Post, the Advocate, the It Gets Better Project’s blog, and QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking.
Sarah came out as lesbian at the age of fourteen and, not knowing any other queer people, taught herself LGBTQ history as a means of gaining a sense of community. She has been an activist since then, working for marriage equality, bisexual visibility, HIV prevention, sexual assault prevention, and basic LGBTQ human rights abroad. Sarah holds a BA from Boston University and a Certificate of Communications from Emerson College. She lives in Connecticut with her wife, daughter, and three cats. This is her first book.
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Queer, There, and Everywhere
PRAISE FOR QUEER, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
“Queer, There, and Everywhere is so conversational, fast paced, and infused with pop culture sensibilities that it tricks you into forgetting it’s a series of (incredibly timely) biographies. An absolute must-read for people interested in their queer forebears, or for anyone who doesn’t already know the majesty of Elagabalus, empress of Rome.”
—Meredith Russo, author of the Stonewall Award–winning If I Was Your Girl
“Accessible, irreverent, and meticulously researched, at times heartbreaking and just as often wildly funny, this stunningly diverse survey of queer histories is a nourishing and inspiring addition to our arsenal of queer possibilities. Should be required reading for all of us, queer or not.”
—Sarah McCarry, author of the Lambda Award–nominated About a Girl
“Recognition is so vital to who we are and who we are able to become. Thank goodness we live in a time when queer kids can finally participate in their history! Queer, There, and Everywhere is a valuable resource for all those queer kids out there. Let them know they are not alone. Let them know they have a history. This book is a lifeline and a gift.”
—Justin Sayre, writer, performer, and author of Husky
“Wow. It isn’t easy to tell stories from across time and space of lives we would now call queer. Much less in an I-can’t-put-this-book-down way. Sarah Prager has done it, showing us all how to ‘live bravely.’”
—Leila J. Rupp, author of Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women, coeditor of Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, and professor at UC Santa Barbara
“Reading this book is like discussing history with a really good (and really smart) friend—free of pretentiousness, full
of wisdom, dispatched in a casual but informative way. Queer, There, and Everywhere is a desperately needed and absolutely brilliant breath of fresh air. A must-read!”
—Shane Bitney Crone, activist and producer-subject of the Bridegroom documentary
“In Queer, There and Everywhere, Sarah Prager does the impossible: she takes several millennia worth of complicated history and makes it accessible and fun for young readers. Prager tells us twenty-two fascinating stories, some of them new twists on familiar ones (like Abraham Lincoln) as well as ones about figures who history has nearly forgotten (like the Roman emperor Elagabalus), mixing lighthearted humor with impeccable scholarship so that the reader keeps turning the page to see ‘what’s next.’ In short, Prager combines fun and facts to present an unforgettable overview of two thousand years of queer history.”
—Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN and former assistant deputy secretary of the US Department of Education, and author of Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students
“Queer, There, and Everywhere is a powerful educational book about the lives of twenty-three LGBTQ people who made important contributions to our society. This is an essential tool to educate the world about our LGBTQ heroes and leaders.”
—José Gutierrez, founder of the Latino GLBT History Project and cofounder of the Rainbow History Project
“In this delightful and accessible book, Prager introduces us to a wide and diverse assortment of twenty-three historical figures who challenged the gender and/or sexuality norms of their time and place and changed the world. I enjoyed every story.”
—Robyn Ochs, educator and coeditor of Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals around the World
“This is a great book about some remarkable people who show us the actual diversity of real life. Gender isn’t nearly as straightforward as most people pretend it is!”
