Michael Bronski

Michael Bronski
Born 1949
Occupation Writer, historian
Nationality American
Period 1980s-present
Subject LGBT history
Notable works A Queer History of the United States
Website
wgs.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-bronski

Michael Bronski (born May 12, 1949) is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.[1]

Career

Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard University, he currently teaches in the women, gender and sexuality program,[2]

A Queer History of the United States won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Stonewall Book Award in 2012.[2] He also previously won two Lambda Literary Awards as an editor of anthologies, in 1997 for Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, & Sex and in 2004 for Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps.

Personal life

Bronski was the partner of American poet Walta Borawski, who died in 1994.[3]

Works

  • Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility (South End Press, 1984)
  • The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash and the Struggle for Gay Freedom (St. Martin's Press, 1998)
  • Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps (St. Martin's Press, 2003)
  • A Queer History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2011)
  • You can tell just by looking: and 20 other myths about LGBT life and people (Beacon Press, 2013)
  • Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics (Beacon Press, 2015)

References

  1. ↑ "How Gays Helped Make and Remake America". Slate, May 23, 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Harvard". .
  3. ↑ "Michael Bronski and Walta Borawski. Cambridge, MA". Retrieved 22 September 2017.


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