Native American LGBTQ+ Americans, 1528-1976, by Jonathan Ned Katz

Identities

Politics, Government, and Law

Race and Ethnicity

Religion

Sexuality / Sexual Behaviors

Social Life and Community

Science, Medicine, and Health

Arts and Culture

Family, Intimacy, and Relationships

Transgender

These documents about LGBTQ+ Native Americans present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical doctors, anthropologists, homosexual emancipationists, and LGBTQ+ activists. In a few rare instances the voices of LGBTQ+ Native Americans are heard. This is adapted from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976). The notes to these documents contain numbers of additional sources. Last edit: May 31, 2021.

1600s-1700s

1800s

1900-1920

1920-1940

1940-1960

1940-1960

1970s

Katz, Jonathan Ned

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