Queer Youth Histories

This pioneering collection provides, for the first time, an international and transdisciplinary reflectionon youth, history and queer sexualities and genders. Since the 1970s there has been an explosion inresearch focusing on LGBTQ history and on the lives of LGBTQ young people, but these two researchareas have seldom been brought together explicitly. Bridging LGBTQ historical scholarship and contemporary queer youth culturalstudies, this book marks out pathways for thinking more about youth in LGBTQ history and more abouthistory in contemporary understandings of LGBTQ youth.Examining histories from the nineteenth century through to the recent past, contributors examinequeer youth histories in continental Europe, Britain, the United States of America, New Zealand,Australia, Canada, Ireland, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong.