Download or read book A Road To Stonewall 1750-1969 written by Byrne R. S. Fone and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of over two centuries of literary revelations, and of the construction of gay identities during the past 200 years. Includes: sodomites and mollies, 1700-1833; Don Leon, 1833; American homoerotic texts, 1825-1850; Walt Whitman, 1840-1860; Whitman and English homoerotic texts, 1868; poetry and pornography, 1850-1895; J.A. Symonds and homotextuality, 1873-1891; Edward Carpenter, 1894; Havelock Ellis, 1897; E.M. Forster, 1913; American homophobia, 1880-1914; American homoerotic texts, 1897-1933; homophobia, patriotism, and American manhood, 1933-1950; gay American and gay American literature, 1924-1969; and a bibliographic essay.