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- Title
Working the Dunes: Queer Tourism and Henry Blake Fuller's Gentlemanly Mobility.
- Authors
Titman, Nathan
- Abstract
This article focuses on the life and writings of Henry Blake Fuller, who viewed his travels to the beaches of Lake Michigan as opportunities to experience intimacies with other men while maintaining ‘gentlemanly’ respectability. For Fuller, the dunes – in their suggestion of ‘natural’ encroachments on hegemonic cultural practices – signified potential challenges to the presumed normalcy of heterosexual desire and commercialist aspiration. Taken together, his writing and actual beach tourism complicate the largely urban historiography of pre-Second World War homosexuality in the United States by illuminating the role of non-urban space in queer negotiations of modern gender and sexual categories.
- Subjects
HISTORY of gay people; FULLER, Henry Blake, 1857-1929; LGBTQ+ tourism; BEACHES; GAY men's social life &; customs; MIDDLE class men
- Publication
Gender & History, 2019, Vol 31, Issue 1, p132
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12412