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Genders and Sexualities in History Queer Youth Histories EDITED BY DANIEL MARSHALL Genders and Sexualities in History Series Editors Joanna Bourke Birkbeck College University of London London, UK Sean Brady Birkbeck College University of London London, UK Matthew Champion Australian Catholic University Melbourne, Australia Palgrave Macmillan’s series, Genders and Sexualities in History, accom- modates and fosters new approaches to historical research in the fields of genders and sexualities. The series promotes world-class scholarship, which concentrates upon the interconnected themes of genders, sexuali- ties, religions/religiosity, civil society, politics and war. Historical studies of gender and sexuality have, until recently, been more or less disconnected fields. In recent years, historical analyses of genders and sexualities have synthesised, creating new departures in his- toriography. The additional connectedness of genders and sexualities with questions of religion, religiosity, development of civil societies, poli- tics and the contexts of war and conflict is reflective of the movements in scholarship away from narrow history of science and scientific thought, and history of legal processes approaches, that have dominated these paradigms until recently. The series brings together scholarship from Contemporary, Modern, Early Modern, Medieval, Classical and Non- Western History. The series provides a diachronic forum for scholarship that incorporates new approaches to genders and sexualities in history. More information about this series at https://link.springer.com/bookseries/15000 Daniel Marshall Editor Queer Youth Histories Editor Daniel Marshall Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University Melbourne, VIC, Australia ISSN 2730-9479 ISSN 2730-9487 (electronic) Genders and Sexualities in History ISBN 978-1-137-56549-5 ISBN 978-1-137-56550-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56550-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Stockbyte/Getty Images This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom For my parents, Valda Lesley Marshall and Roger Arthur Marshall, who first taught me about history, and to all the queer kids who grew up thinking they were the only ones. A cknowledgements This book is the result of the work of many hands and it is a daunting task to acknowledge all of the labour that has brought it into the world. In so many ways this book has been created from many different com- munities and environments which have nurtured precious conversations about sexual and gender difference and ideas about youth over time, so any list of acknowledgements which singles people out will by defini- tion fall short. So, please forgive any omissions, but I want to specifically acknowledge the contributions of the following people. As an edited volume, this book gathers together a variety of voices and so my thanks are to the writers who have contributed to this col- lection. As you will see as you make your way through the book, each writer brings with them their own deep and profound engagement with our central muse—this thing called ‘queer youth history’—even while in each of their hands it becomes something quite different again and again. Through their words, these writers craft a wide variety of accounts which shed light not only on a particular approach to the subject, but on whole histories of investigation behind each essay. Open the door of any given chapter and there one finds corridors leading into different disci- plinary traditions, a variety of socio-political contexts and an array of dif- ferent research projects and lived histories. I thank the writers for sharing their scholarship so that we can bring these pieces together in this way to ask the collective question: what is queer youth history? vii viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As part of the work toward this book I organised a symposium on the topic at The Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at London South Bank University. The Weeks Centre was a vibrant and exciting venue to host these conversations and I am very grateful for its role in helping nurture this book into being. I want to thank everyone at the Weeks Centre who helped make the symposium happen—especially Jeffrey Weeks, Yvette Taylor, Tracey Reynolds, Nicola Horsley and Beverley Goring. I am also very grateful to everyone who presented at and attended the symposium and to everyone who expressed interest in being involved with the symposium and with the book. In particular, I want to express my deep gratitude to Jeffrey Weeks for his longstand- ing and generous support for this book, and for the inspiration of his work. I’m also grateful to Jeffrey and Mark McNestry, and Anna Hickey- Moody and Penny Moody, for their wonderful hospitality in London. I also worked on this project during my time as a visiting scholar at The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and I want to thank everyone there. I also want to thank Jonathan Ned Katz, Joan Nestle and Matt Cook. In Australia, Deakin University has supported work on this book in a variety of ways and I am very grateful for the intellectual stimula- tion provided by the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin, includ- ing my colleagues and students in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Writing and Literature and the School of Communication and Creative Arts more generally. I also want to express my heartfelt appreciation to the Australian Queer Archives and all of the volunteers who have built AQuA and who keep the Archives going. I have been very fortunate to receive encouragement and intellectual stimulation for this book in many different ways from many people. In particular, many thanks to: Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover, Robyn Dwyer, Laniyuk Garcon, Anna Hickey-Moody, Don Hill, Dino Hodge, Gary Jaynes, Michal Morris, Kevin Murphy, Di Otto, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Geoffrey Robinson, Rachel Sanderson, Eliza Smith, Susan Talburt, and Zeb Tortorici. Special thanks to my parents, Val and Roger, my sister Katrina and her children (Caitlin, Ashley, Emily and Lachlan) and Duane Duncan for their love and support. I also wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations, the traditional owners of the land where I did much of the work on this book. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix Of course, this book would not have been possible without the tire- less work of everyone at Palgrave. In particular, I am very grateful to Carmel Kennedy, Emily Russell, Preetha Kuttiappan and the whole pro- duction team for all of their work in helping to bring this manuscript to publication. I am also very grateful to Clare Mence for initially reach- ing out to me about the prospect of publishing this book with Palgrave, and to Angharad Bishop. I am also very grateful to the editors of the Genders and Sexualities in History book series for giving this book a home. Thanks are also due to the design team for their work designing the cover and to Zacharia Bruckner and Capstone Editing staff for their help preparing the manuscript for publication. Thanks also to Sally Pope for creating the book’s index. I also want to express my thanks on behalf of the authors to the anonymous readers of this proposal and manu- script. Bringing queer work into the world is never something to take for granted and I have been very humbled by the work everyone has under- taken to help create this book. This book could not have been written without the queer histories that have come before it—histories of political struggle, activist scholar- ship, fierce living and defiant efforts to keep these things within living memory. In many ways it is written for queer youth in history—includ- ing all those queer kids we might have known but didn’t or could have been but weren’t—and for queer kids today who might come to know the past differently and thus see the prospect of new futures. c ontents 1 What Is Queer Youth History? 1 Daniel Marshall 2 Toward Psychosexual Development: Preliminaries to Queer Youth Prehistory 41 Diederik F. Janssen 3 G. Stanley Hall and Perverse Plasticity in Modern Adolescence 75 Don Romesburg 4 Same-Sex Desire and Young New Zealanders Before 1950 107 Chris Brickell 5 “We Will Never Betray You, Brothers and Sisters”: Queer Youth and the Intellectual History of Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World 135 Scott de Groot 6 “Cherishing All the Children of the Nation Equally”: Gay Youth Organisation and Activism in Ireland 169 Patrick James McDonagh and Páraic Kerrigan xi

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