Queer Fictions of the Past

This is the first book to look at how lesbians and gays use history to define themselves as social cultural and political subjects. Bravmann shows how historical representations are dynamic conversations between past and present creating individual and collective meanings. Exploring the theoretical and political ramifications of this project he considers how historiography ancient Greece the Stonewall riots and postmodern historical texts inform and reflect race gender class and political differences in queer subjectivity.