AHA Convention 2012

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