Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895 - 1917 - Softcover

By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917. Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United Stales. The anarchists Kissack examines - such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman - defended the right of individuals to pursue same-sex relations, often challenging the conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists, as well as those outside the movement - police, clergy, and medical authorities - who condemned LGBT people.

Terence Kissack is a former Executive Director of San Francisco's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and he currently serves on the board.

Terence Kissack is the Executive Director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. His published work, which has appeared in the Radical History Review and The Journal of the History of Sexuality, examines the intersection of the politics of the left and the politics of homosexuality. He earned his PhD in history at the City Univerity of New York.