LGBT Presence in American Literature and Theatre

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This course is designed to build critical thinking on how literature has reflected, transformed, and/or contributed to the identity of homosexuals and lesbians in the pre- and post-Stonewall era. Students will form solid arguments in their papers on how the mores of heterosexual society have battled politically and religiously with both playwrights and authors who have sought to fairly depict same-sex love, at times winning the cultural/psychological battles, at times losing. Would the gay rights movement have made the progress it has without books, poems, and a theater that dug deep into the gay and lesbian psyche?