Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History at the 2012 AHA in Chicago
The Politics of Respectability Reconsidered: Using the Framework of Respectability to Examine Southern Lesbian History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 1
Coordinating Council for Women in History 3
Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Benjamin E. Wise, University of Florida
Megan Shockley, Clemson University, Respectability and Lesbian Motherhood: Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman
Janet L. Allured, McNeese State University, Fashion and the Performance of Lesbian Feminist Identity
La Shonda Mims, University of Georgia, Activist or Apathetic? Lesbians and Bar Space in the Post-World War II South
Comment: Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Louisiana State University
Doing Queer History in the Twenty-First Century
AHA Session 49
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 2
Friday, January 6, 2012: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
John A. D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
The Queer Politics of Managing Youth and Sex in the 1920s United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 3
Friday, January 6, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, Wayward Sexualities, Delinquent Mentalities, and Early Twentieth-Century Youth Experts
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado, Child Marriage and Contests over Non-Normative Sexuality in the 1920s
Allison Miller, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Therapeutic Discipline and Queer Youth in a School for Delinquent Girls, c. 1926
Comment: Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Twentieth-Century Queer and Artistic Bohemias
AHA Session 129
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 4
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Chair: Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York
Christopher Adam Mitchell, Rutgers University-Newark, Twilight of the Demimonde: Queer and Bohemian Radicalism and the “Liberation” of the Black Market Economy in Greenwich Village
Thomas W. Hafer, City University of New York, Graduate Center, Young and Evil Bohemia: Sex, Art, and Identity in the Queer Atlantic, 1930–39
Camilla Smith, University of Birmingham, Blue Travel at the Crossroads: Curt Moreck’s Guide to “Depraved” Berlin, 1931
Comment: Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York
Building Community, Combating Phobia, Part 1: The Media’s Narratives on “Patient Zero” and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 5
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University
Richard A. McKay, King’s College London, Communicative Contacts: Randy Shilts, Gaétan Dugas, and the Construction of the “Patient Zero” Myth
Phil Tiemeyer, Philadelphia University, “Patient Zero” and the “Recalcitrant” Queer
David C. Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AIDS, the Religious Right, and Gay Sex in Late 1980s North Carolina
Comment: Ian Lekus, Harvard University
Building Communities, Combating Phobia, Part II: LGBT Identity, Medicine, and Health
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Judith A. Houck, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Treating Men at a Lesbian Clinic: Identity Politics, Feminist Organizing, and Health Care Provision, 1979 to the Present
Catherine Batza, University of Illinois at Chicago, “I Want You for a Free VD Test”: Making Sexual Health Part of Gay Identity in Chicago, 1974–81
Tristan D. Cabello, Bowdoin College, Black Discos, AIDS, and the Harold Washington Administration: The Making of AIDS as a Black Gay Disease, 1975–85
John Goins, University of Houston, Politicking the Gay Cancer: Electoral Intransigence and the AIDS Response in Houston
Comment: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Bodies of Evidence: Queer Oral History Methods
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 7
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Daniel W. Rivers, Emory University, Race, Class, Oral History, and the Liberation-Era Divide
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Sharing Queer Authorities: Transgender Latina and Gay Latino Meanings
Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University, Talking about Sex: Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher Tell Their Stories
Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame, Private Lives and Public History: Excavating the Sexual Past in Queer Oral History
Comment: Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota
Race-ing the Sexual Revolution
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 8
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Gillian Frank, Stony Brook University, The Racial Origins of Family Values Politics: Abortion and Busing in Michigan, 1970–80
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University-Newark, Making the Second Gay Ghetto: The Whitening of Queer Chicago from Daley to Daley
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University, Birth Control for the Masses: Experimenting Contraceptive Technologies in Asia, 1950s to 1960s
Comment: Marc Stein, York University
Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 1: New Narratives in U.S. Gender and Sexuality Studies
AHA Session 229
Coordinating Council for Women in History 13
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 9
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University
Julio Capó Jr., Yale University, “A Polluted Playground”: Gender, Sexuality, and the Consumption of Miami’s Vice Culture, 1948–60
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University, “Sex Anarchy” and Female Sexual “Delinquency”: Young Women’s Sexual Nonconformity in the 1950s United States
Tim Retzloff, Yale University, Queer Cities and Suburban Sin Clubs: Sexual Anxieties in American Scandal and Men’s Pulp Magazines of the 1950s and 1960s
Stephanie Chalifoux, University of Alabama, “Highway Girls”: Sex Work Migration in the 1950s Rural South
Comment: David K. Johnson, University of South Florida
The Pleasures and Perils of LGBTQ Public History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University
Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota, Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History
Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory.org, Creating OutHistory.org
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, Going Viral with Brick-and-Mortar Queer History: Opening the GLBT History Museum
Joey Plaster, Yale University; Megan Rohrer, Pacific School of Religion, Queer Histories of San Francisco’s Tenderloin
Comment: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University
Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Lessons Learned from Integrating Minorities and Women in the U.S. Military
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 11
Coordinating Council for Women in History 14
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Douglas Walter Bristol Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
Douglas Walter Bristol Jr., University of Southern Mississippi, Making Integration Work: The U.S. Military’s Race Relations Initiatives of the 1970s
David Hall, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, Update on Ending the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Movement
Tanya L. Roth, Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School, Elusive Integration: The Challenges of Integrating Women into the U.S. Military
Charissa J. Threat, Northeastern University, Does the Sex of the Practitioner Matter? Sex Discrimination, Nursing, and the Army Nurse Corps in the 1950s
Comment: The Audience
Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe
AHA Session 256
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 12
Conference on Latin American History 72
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas at San Antonio
Nathan Andrew Wilson, York University, “The Gestapo Lives On”: West German and American Gay Activists and the Politics of Memory
Dasa Francikova, University of California, Santa Barbara, Going Global, Getting Personal: Transnational Lesbian Organizing and Relationships in the Long 1950s
Pablo E. Ben, University of Northern Iowa, Family Life and the Formation of Modern Homosexual Identity in Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1930–60
Ryan M. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Homosexual Narratives in the Long 1950s: The Mexican Case
Comment: Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign