of accuracy: "So profound is the historically specific character of sexual behavior that only with the loosest accuracy can we speak of sodomy in the early colonies and 'sodomy' in present-day New York as 'the same thing.' In another example, to speak of 'heterosexual behavior' as occurring universally is to apply one term to a great variety of activities produced within a great variety of sexual and gender systems." Bibliography Books The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams. Chicago Review Press. 2021. Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality. University of Chicago Press, Dec. 2001. Co-winner John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, 2003. The Invention of Heterosexuality. Dutton, 1995. Foreword by Gore Vidal. Afterword by Lisa Duggan. Translated and published in Brazil, Italy, France, Spain. Reprint: University of Chicago Press, June 2007. Cited by U.S. Supreme Court in majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, June 2003. Gay/Lesbian Almanac: A New Documentary. Harper & Row, 1983; reprint NY: Carroll & Graf, 1994. Number 21 on list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, a project of the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing. Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. T.Y. Crowell, 1976; reprints Avon, 1977; Harper & Row, 1985; New American Library 1992. Number 3 on list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books, a project of the Publishing Triangle, the association of lesbians and gay men in publishing. Coming Out! A Documentary Play About Gay Life and Lesbian Life Liberation. Arno Press-NY Times, 1975. Resistance at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, 1851. T.Y. Crowell, 1974. Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince. [Co-author Bernard Katz] Pantheon, 1973. Articles "The Invention of Heterosexuality", published in Socialist Review 20, 1990. Expanded as book. "'Homosexual' and 'Heterosexual': Questioning the Terms", published in A Queer World, 1997 See also OutHistory History of sex Queer studies Queer theory References External links The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society Jonathan Ned Katz Art OutHistory.org Jonathan Ned Katz papers, 1947-2004, held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library Jonathan Ned Katz papers on Coming Out!, 1972-1973, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1938 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American gay writers Historians of LGBT topics Gay academics LGBT historians LGBT Jews Living