Headshot of author Jonathan Ned Katz by Philip Harrison, used with permission. Cover of The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, courtesy of Chicago Review Press & Triumph Books, used with permission.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
Author, historian and OutHistory.org founder Jonathan Ned Katz will discuss his new book, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, the story of the daring Jewish lesbian activist Eve Adams. Drawing on startling evidence while carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, Katz presents the first biography of Adams. Born into a Jewish family in Poland, Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912 and befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. In 1925 she risked it all to write and publish a book entitled Lesbian Love, presenting brief portraits of two dozen women (Katz’s book also reprints the long-lost-text of Lesbian Love).
Adams’s bold activism caught the attention of the young J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI), leading to her surveillance and arrest. In a case that pitted immigration officials, the New York City police, and a biased informer against her, Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene work and of attempting sex with a policewoman deployed to entrap her. Jailed and deported back to Europe, Adams was ultimately murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
SPEAKER
Jonathan Ned Katz (he/him/his) is the author of Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the USA (1976) and four other books on sexual history; two books on African American history; and the plays Coming Out! and Comrades and Lovers. He founded OutHistory.org, a major website on LGBTQ U.S. history. He is also a visual artist; the first solo exhibit of his paintings was held at the Leslie-Lohman Museum (see jnkArt.com.), and he published Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Memoir with Paintings.
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