ABSTRACT
While the last twenty years have witnessed both a burgeoning of manifestations of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) history and a scrutiny of its terms, the literature on public history and memory has done little to incorporate its challenges. This chapter examines, first, the theories and models that have shaped LGBT history in the public and academic world. It goes on to analyse some of the ways LGBT public history has been produced in relation to political exigencies, community dynamics, and desires both collective and individual, by looking at law, monuments, heritage and collective memory.
