Odd Characters: Queer Lives in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

dc.contributor.advisorLyons, Clareen_US
dc.contributor.authorSCHMITT, KATHRYNen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-14T05:33:40Z
dc.date.available2020-07-14T05:33:40Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractQueer history in Baltimore began long before the twentieth century. People who diverged from societal norms of gender and sexuality were always present in Baltimore’s history, and they can be seen through media representations and popular press of the time period. Even when representation of queerness in media was less common, stories of people who diverged from gender and sexual norms were still distributed to the public. Media representations provided inspiration and information to people who did not have access to a group of like-minded people through a distinct subculture. Queer Baltimoreans drew from media representations, early stages of a developing subculture, or their own personal thoughts and feelings to inform their gender and sexual identities. Despite the legal and social measures restricting these people from living their lives as freely as they might wish, they still found individualized ways to live life outside of gender and sexual norms.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/f28d-e6wv
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26299
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLGBTQ studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBaltimoreen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLGBTQ+en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarylanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledQueeren_US
dc.titleOdd Characters: Queer Lives in Nineteenth-Century Baltimoreen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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