My Desire for History
Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
By Allan Bérubé
Edited with an Introduction by John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
344 pp., 6.125 x 9.125, 24 illus., notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-7195-9
Published: June 2011 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-7798-2
Published: June 2011
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Awards & distinctions
2013 John Boswell Prize, The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, American Historical Association
About the Author
Allan Bérubé (1946-2007) was an independent scholar and community historian.
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Reviews
“D’Emilio and Freedman deserve our unreserved thanks for rescuing these significant Bérubé writings from obscurity, and for making his courageous life’s story available to us all. My Desire for History will be a rich and thought-provoking addition to your library. Do yourself a favor and buy it.”--Gay City News
“Particularly engaging.”--Gay & Lesbian Review
“The essays adapted from the acclaimed slide shows that Berube produced are powerful.”--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
"In his smart, heart-felt, and now classic essays on class, labor, race, gender, and sexuality in lesbian, gay, and transgender history, Allan Bérubé lives again. An excerpt from his unfinished book about the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and his editors' moving overview of his life and work ensure that, though Bérubé has left us, his soul keeps marching on."--Jonathan Ned Katz, historian, co-director of OutHistory.org
"Allan Bérubé was a meticulous archival researcher, a gifted oral historian, and a concise and graceful writer. In addition, he thought creatively about the process by which scholarship can contribute to making a more just world. This collection beautifully demonstrates these strengths; in truth, I often couldn't put the essays down."--Elizabeth L. Kennedy, University of Arizona
"This collection of Allan Bérubé's finest essays offers a history of gay and lesbian movements, the challenges, frustrations, triumphs, and despair that characterized these movements, and a remarkably honest and vitally important critical assessment of the varied approaches that constituted this activism. Thanks to the work of D'Emilio and Freedman, two preeminent scholars of sexuality, Bérubé's extraordinary words and life are now accessible to all."--Leisa D. Meyer, The College of William and Mary