Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism is an important and engaging contribution to the field of both public history and LGBTQ+ history. Authored by Marc Stein, a historian studying queer history for more than three decades, the book brings a personal perspective to queer history from the late 1980s through the 2010s. Stein uses his own essays, written throughout his career, to examine the issues faced by the queer community over time, the developments of the queer movement, and how those issues and developments affected historians doing queer history. Queer Public History also illustrates how community historians and academic historians have been intertwined since the beginning of the academic study of queer history. The relationship has allowed for a more activist approach to queer history than most other history disciplines.
The book comprises thirty-three essays organized into eight sections centered on different themes. Those themes are as follows: “Queer...
University of California Press