JOHN D. GUSTAV-WRATHALL

BOOKS

• Trial of Faith (Forthcoming)

• Take the Young Stranger By the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the Young Men’s Christian Association (University of Chicago Press, 1998)

PUBLICATIONS

• Review: William D. Russell, ed., Homosexual Saints: The Community of Christ Experience, Journal of Mormon History (Vol. 35, No. 1, Winter 2009):245-250

• “Trial of Faith,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Vol. 40, No. 2, Summer 2007): 78-107

• “A Gay Mormon’s Testimony,” Sunstone (Issue 141, April 2006):52-57

• Review: D. Michael Quinn, Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, Journal of Mormon History (Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2006):259-263

• “Sexual Terrorism,” Case Reports of the Mormon Alliance (Vol. 3, 1997):166-182

• “Taking the Young Stranger by the Hand: Homosexual Cruising at the YMCA, 1890-1980” in Nina Miagkij and Margaret Spratt, eds., Men and Women Adrift (New York University Press, 1997), pp. 250-270

• American Manhood and the YMCA (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1994)

• “Provenance as Text: Reading Silences around Sexuality in Manuscript Collections,” Journal of American History (June 1992):165-178

PAPERS

• “Homosexuality and the Mormon Ethic of Body-Spirit Integrity,” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2007

• GLBT Issues Workshop, North Hennepin Community College, Center for Liberal Arts, May 3, 2007

• “Homosexuality and LDS Faith,” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2006

• “Masculinity, Gender and the American History Curriculum,” Central Connecticut State University, November 2005

• “Taking the Young Stranger by the Hand: A History of Cruising at the YMCA,” Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, GA, April 1994

• “Historians Cruise the YMCA,” 3rd National Grad Students’ Conference on Queer Studies, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993

• “Many of our Brightest and Best: The Problem of Unmarried Secretaries in the YMCA, 1868-1920,” 2nd National Grad Students’ Conference on Queer Studies, Champaign-Urbana, IL, April 1992

• “Queer Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Issues Involved in Bridging the Gender Gap,” Minnesota Lesbian and Gay Scholars Conference, Normandale Community College, May 1991

• “The Myth of the Downtrodden Immigrant,” Social Science History Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 1990