Jonathan Ned Katz Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.The Jonathan Ned Katz Papers include correspondence, writings, research notes, audiotapes, moving picture films, and textile designs. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 George Chauncey. One of the important consequences of this line of thought which Katz notes in The most complete list of Katz's works and life is available on OutHistory.org at: The Yale class was taught in 2003. In 1975 he was general editor of the Arno Press-New York Times reprint series on homosexuality. Raised in New York City in Lower Manhattan at his parents' residence on 81 Jane Street, Jonathan Katz was graduated in 1956 from the High School of Music and Art. Jonathan Ned Katz (born 1938) is a historian of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual American history, who has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social organization of sexuality over time. Additional research notes may be found in the series Topical Files and Writings. It was co-winner of the John Boswell Prize awarded by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association, in 2003.The Invention of Heterosexuality was published by Dutton/Penguin in 1995 with a foreword by Go… During his writing career Katz has been the recipient of several grants from philanthropic foundations including the Writer-in-Residence Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (1984 and 1985), the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation, and from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council for the purpose of producing, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, an educational documentary entitled "Words" which explored the changing terminology's and concepts in the field of gay and lesbian history. The textile designs consist of samples of designs on cloth and on paper of Katz's work as a free lance textile designer. He has also been guest lecturer on gay American history at several colleges and universities including Yale, Princeton, and the University of Chicago, and has taught courses on the gay and lesbian history at New York University and at the New School for Social Research (1991). There are several separate alphabetical runs which reflect materials donated to the library at different times.
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The grant files document Mr. Katz's requests for financial aid from philanthropic and other institutions to support the research and writing of his historical documentaries including his book on gay and lesbian history; a proposed documentary play based upon the life and writings of Walt Whitman; a book on the political economy of sex; a study of the history and origins of the state sodomy laws; and a book-length version of his article "The Invention of Heterosexuality" (Socialist Review, Feb. 1990). Katz is also the author of The Invention of Heterosexuality (Dutton, 1995) and Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2001).