Jonathan Ned Katz

Jonathan Ned Katz (* 1938 ) is an American historian and author.

education

Katz attended Music and Art High School from 1952 to 1956. He was then in 1956 and 1957 at Antioch College and from 1957 to 1959 at College City of New York . Katz attended the New School in 1961 and 1962, and Hunter College in 1972 .

job

Katz worked as a historian focusing on the processing of LGBT history in the United States. He turned his attention to the changes in the way American society treats LGBT. In his work his attitude emerges that the description and definition of human sexuality is historically and culturally dependent.

Private life

Katz was one of the founding members of the Gay Academic Union in 1973 . In 1980, Katz was a founding member of the National Writers Union .

Books by Katz

• Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality , University of Chicago Press, December 2001. Community Winner of the John Boswell Prize , Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, 2003

• The Invention of Heterosexuality Dutton, 1995. Foreword by Gore Vidal . Closing words by Lisa Duggan . Translated and published in Brazil, Italy, France and Spain. Reprinted by University of Chicago Press, June 2007. Quoted by the US Supreme Court as majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas , June 2003

• Gay / Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary Harper & Row, 1983; New York reprint: Carroll & Graf, 1994. (Number 21 on the list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books); a project by Publishing Triangle

• Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA , TY Crowell, 1976; Avon reissue, 1977; Harper & Row, 1985; New American Library 1992. (Number 3 on the list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books); a project by Publishing Triangle

• Coming out! A Documentary Play About Gay Life and Lesbian Life Liberation , Arno Press-NY Times, 1975

• Resistance at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, 1851 , TY Crowell, 1974

• Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince , co-authored by Bernard Katz , Pantheon, 1973

Editing

• Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature , Arno Press-New York Times, 1975

Essays and Reviews

• Coming to Terms: Conceptualizing Men's Erotic and Affectional Relations with Men in the US, 1820-1892 , presented at the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies , in: The Queer World, Martin B. Duberman , NYU Press, 1997

• Introduction: 'Homosexual' and 'Heterosexual' History , in: The Queer World , Martin B. Duberman, NYU Press, 1997

• Sex Is in Our Heads, Not in Our Genes , New York Newsday, April 1995

• Introduction to Donn Teal , The Gay Militants , St. Martin's Press, 1995

• The Age of Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1740 in: Jonathan Goldberg, Reclaiming Sodom , New York: Routledge, 1994

• The Political Economy of Pleasure: Toward a Theory of the Historical Organization of Erotic Activity, with Special Reference to Heterosexuality Paper at Harvard University, 1990, 4th Annual Gay Studies Conference ; American Historical Association, NYC, 1990; SUNY-Buffalo, 1991; NY Institute for the Humanities, NYC, 1991; Penn State, 1992; University of NH, 1992; Carleton College, 1994.

• The Invention of Heterosexuality , Socialist Review , 1990; reprinted by Women, Culture and Society: A Reader, The Women's Studies Program , Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Kendall / Hunt, 1992, and many more

• Were the '90s Gay? , American Heritage Magazine , written 1990

• Katz on History , 19 columns on lesbian and gay history, The Advocate , September 13, 1988 and February 27, 1990

• Editor of Gay Men's Health Crisis Annual Report , 1986-87, 1988-89

• A request from the Director, New York Council for the Humanities , Reviews Conference on AIDS: Humanistic Perspectives , New York City, February 26-27, 1988

• The Time of Our Lives: Thoughts on Lesbian and Gay History , essay in the catalog of the first photographic exhibition on New York City Lesbian and Gay History , produced by the Office of the Mayor , June 1988

• True Lust (Review: Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality ), Village Voice , October 18, 1983

• Melville's Secret Sex Text , (on the Redburn novel ), Village Voice Literary Supplement , April 1982

• Womanhood in America , (review), Body Politic , 1977-78

• Coming Out Fighting , (Review), The Nation , July 2, 1973

• Life Visits A Back-Yard Movie Set: Jonathan Katz , 13 Films Tom Sawyer , Photos by Esther Bubley, "Life," June 11, 1951, pp. 140-143

• Bringing Up Parents , Parents Magazine , 1950s

• What Shall We Do About Television? , Parents Magazine of December 25, 1950 page 102

Prizes and awards

• Awarded by the Arcus Foundation for freely initiating the website on LGBT history, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York , 2006
• Awarded by Zebra Fund / The Funding Exchange , 2005
• John Boswell Prize , 2003
• Ken Dawson Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies , 1994
• Magnus Hirschfeld Medal , 1997
• Awarded by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council , 1985
• Two Writer-in-Residence Award from The New York State Council on the Arts , 1984 and 1985, supported by the Fund for Human Dignity
• Awarded by the Louis and Pauline Cowan Foundation , 1979
• Awarded by the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation , 1976
• Awarded by the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation , 1967 and 1968

Further honors

• Katz's manuscripts are collected by the manuscript department of the New York Public Library .
• Guest speaker on American LGBT history at the universities of Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, Cornell, Bennigton, Sarah Lawrence, City University of New York and other universities
• Selected in 1999 as Grand Marshal at the annual Gay Pride March by the Heritage of Pride Committee

Web links

• http://www.glbthistory.org/