This course surveys LGBTQ US history from the pre-contact era to the present. It examines gender and sexuality, especially the emergence of gender ideologies and sexual identities, as they intersect with race, ethnicity, class, and citizenship. Definitions and transformations of these ideologies and identities will be examined through colonization, industrialization, westward expansion, immigration, urbanization, modernization of science and medicine, war, and civil rights and liberation movements. The course will pay particular attention to LGBTQ Americans' influence on the social, economic, political, and cultural development of the United States.