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Article: Who is the subject? Queer theory meets oral history.(Essay)
- Article from:
- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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THE TINY SUBFIELD OF U.S. gay, lesbian, and queer history has evolved since the publication of John D'Emilio's 1983 Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities into a fledgling discipline that has over time established an overarching set of research questions and an accepted set of research methods. (1) With the exception of a few monographs, like Peter Boag's exhaustively researched Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (2003), there are few works in this twenty-five-year-old field that do not depend heavily on oral history methods. As George Chauncey observes in Gay New York, "early in my research it became clear that oral ...