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( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Mar 24 2009
Benemann, William. "Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships", Routledge, 2006. A Remarkable Study Amos Lassen Many of us are unfamiliar with the history of gay men in Colonial America. "Male-Male Intimacy in Early America" gives readers a look at homosexuality in early America. Much of the information in the book has never been classified before and was found in journals and archives as well as personal letters, court records and publications of the period. Benemann researched wherever he had a lead from the Library of Congress, the Huntington Library, the Archives of the United States Military Academy and the Missouri Historical Society. He shows us that homosexuality has been with us throughout the history of this country, He shows us how this was expressed and looks at race and gender and their roles in the building of America. This is quite a study yet it is written in language that all of us can understand.
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Posted: Sep 4 2007
I have found this work very informative and extremely well researched, if at times a bit longwinded in the prose. Nevertheless, it offers an invaluable source for those who wish to gain a more complete picture on the emergence of homosexuality as a 'condition' of but also to researchers due to its copious source material. It brings up the question too whether we, in our time, aren't just puttingtoo many labels on too many things, and whether we wouldn't be better off sometimes not to pigeonhole everything. After all most of our divisions into emotional categories are artificial. We are composed of everything and evenly capable of everything.
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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Sep 4 2007
I have found this work very informative and extremely well researched, if at times a bit longwinded in the prose. Nevertheless, it offers an invaluable source for those who wish to gain a more complete picture on the emergence of homosexuality as a 'condition' of but also to researchers due to its copious source material. It brings up the question too whether we, in our time, aren't just putting too many labels on too many things, and whether we wouldn't be better off sometimes not to pigeonhole everything. After all most of our divisions into emotional categories are artificial. We are composed of everything and evenly capable of everything.
