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The Story of a Life
1901
Claude Hartland
St. Louis : Privately Printed
American
Memoir
141pp
Gay Men, Queer Experience
Open Access
Summary
Subtitled, "For the Consideration of the Medical Fraternity." Considered the first American autobiography by an avowed homosexual man. Details Hartland's experience with sexual identity, experiences with doctors, guilt and religion, and the queer community in St. Louis.
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Editions
St Louis : Privately Published (1901)
San Francisco : Grey Fox Press (1985) republished with an introduction by C. A. Tripp
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