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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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