Queer Youth Histories

This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflection on youth, history and queer sexualities and genders. Since the 1970s there has been an explosion in research focusing on LGBTQ history and on the lives of LGBTQ young people, but these two research areas have seldom been brought together explicitly. Bridging LGBTQ historical scholarship and contemporary queer youth cultural studies, this book marks out pathways for thinking more about youth in LGBTQ history and more about history in contemporary understandings of LGBTQ youth. Examining histories from the nineteenth century through to the recent past, contributors examine queer youth histories in continental Europe, Britain, the United States of America, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in Literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, and the Convenor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a past president of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York and at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University.

Chapter One: Queer Youth Histories: An Introduction; Daniel Marshall.- Chapter Two:Toward Psychosexual Development: Preliminaries to Queer Youth Prehistory; Diederik F. Janssen.- Chapter Three: Perverse Plasticity in G. Stanley Hall's Modern American Adolescence; Don Romesburg.- Chapter Four: Same-sex Desire and Young New Zealanders before 1950; Chris Brickell.- Chapter Five:"'We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters:' Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World"; Scott de Groot.- Chapter Six: "Cherishing all the Children of the Nation Equally" - Gay Youth Organisation and Activism in Ireland; Patrick James McDonagh and Páraic Kerrigan.- Chapter Seven: The "New" Trans Child: Pioneering Families and Documentary Television; Jessica Ann Vooris.- Chapter Eight: Between Norms and Differences : The Online Histories of Quebec's Queer Youth; Roberto Ortiz Nunez and Dominique Meunier.- Chapter Nine: The Print Culture of 'Bombay Dost':The "Recent Past" of Queer Youth in Postcolonial India; Pawan Singh.- Chapter Ten: Tuning into yourself: queer coming of age and music; Marion Wasserbauer.- Chapter Eleven: Escaping to a Digital Congregation: LGBTQIA Mormon Youth on Tumblr and the Rise and Decline of Queerstake; David Eichert.- Chapter Twelve: Historical and contemporary silences: the experiences of queer Muslim youth; Shanon Shah Mohd Sidik.- Chapter Thirteen: Schoolgirl lesbians in Hong Kong: (A)historicity, temporality, and survival; Sonia Wong.- Chapter Fourteen: Growing up needing the past: an activist's reflection on the history of LGBT History Month in the UK; Sue Sanders.- Chapter Fifteen: Being a young gay person in the 1970s: reflections on reading Young, Gay and Proud; Karen Charman.- Chapter Sixteen: Mundjulk: One plant, many leaves; Laniyuk Garcon.- Index