Cultural Writing. Gay Studies. By investigating journals, books, and public records between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack adds a new foundation to the history of homosexuality in the United States. The anarchist position on individual freedoms was used to defend same-sex partnerships and break down taboos within their own milieu, while bringing the challenge to the rest of society. At the time, the public's entrenched social conservatism instituted a complete blackout of the topic. It was in Will Durant and Emma Goldman's lectures, and in papers such as Benjamin Tucker's Liberty and Leonard Abbott's The Free Comrade, that the personal unquestionably became the political.

Terence Kissack is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. His published work, which has appeared in the Radical History Review and The Journal of the History of Sexuality, examines the intersection of the politics of the left and the politics of homosexuality. He earned his PhD in history at the City Univerity of New York.