This book explores the evolution of gender, sex, and sexuality throughout U.S. history, identifying the systems and movements that influenced the growth of the modern LGBTQ+ community.

The LGBTQ+ community has long been excluded from the teaching of American history.

While some historians have attempted to identify the queer experience in letters and other documents, others have regularly denied or ignored its existence in early American writings.

Michael Bronski is a critic, professor, and scholar of LGBTQ+ culture.

In A Queer History of the United States, Bronski positions the queer experience as an essential part of the nation's origins and examines the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in the face of oppression, rigid cultural norms, and terrifying laws that criminalized their very existence.