Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History at the 2014 AHA in Washington, DC

Outing the Past: Queering History and Historicizing the Queer
Thursday, January 2, 2014: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Wilson Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Susan Freeman, Western Michigan University

Stephanie H. Gilmore, independent scholar
Catherine O. Jacquet, Macalester College
Colin R. Johnson, Indiana University Bloomington
Darnell L. Moore, Hetrick-Martin Institute

Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 1: Queering the Transnational History of HIV/AIDS
Thursday, January 2, 2014: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Virginia Suite (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago

James N. Green, Brown University, Revolutionary Reasoning: Herbert Daniel and the Genesis of New Ways to Think about AIDS in Brazil in the 1980s

Richard A. McKay, University of Cambridge, Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c. 1939–84

Mandisa Mbali, Stellenbosch University, The “International Coming-Out Party”: Transnational AIDS Activism in South Africa, 2000–04

Daniel Royles, University of Angers, Still Acting Up: Philadelphia AIDS Activism into the Twenty-First Century

Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 2: Scaling Queer Archives
Friday, January 3, 2014: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Maryland Suite A (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Edward Madden, University of South Carolina Columbia, The Irish Queer Archive: Institutionalization, Archival Practice, and Historical Narrative

G. Crichton, University of California, Santa Cruz, Archives in Motion / Delegates across Borders

Bonnie Morris, George Washington University, Archiving and Interpreting Lesbian Communities, 1975–99

Horacio Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara, Archives of Sexual Crossings: The Meanings of Puerto Rican Topless Transgender Performer Vicki Starr

Comment: Kevin Murphy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

The Queer Archival Turn?
Friday, January 3, 2014: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Madison Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)

Tavia Nyong’o, New York University
Zeb Tortorici, New York University
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
Benjamin Arthur Cowan, George Mason University

Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 3: The Personal Is the Political Is the Locational: Reassessing Queer North American History
Friday, January 3, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Madison Room B (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University

Stephen Vider, Harvard University, “Piss-Elegant Queen”: Real Estate and the “Homosexual Bourgeoisie” in Postwar Manhattan

Kwame Holmes, University of Virginia, What’s The T?: Rumor, Gossip, and Black Queer Historiography in a Chocolate City

Thomas Winfield Hafer, City University of New York, Graduate Center, The Bohemian Challenge to Gay Liberation, 1960-75

Marc Stein, York University, Canada and Canadians in the “U.S.” Homophile Press

Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Crimes that Changed the LGBT World”: Claiming Kitty Genovese as a Queer Icon

Comment: The Audience

Historicizing the Queerness of Childhood
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Truman Room (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Richard Godbeer, University of Miami

Greta LaFleur, Yale University, “That Cursed School Wickedness of Masturbation”: Childhood Pedagogies of Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century North America

Jen Manion, Connecticut College, Transgender Tendencies in Antebellum Children’s Literature

Brian Connolly, University of South Florida at Tampa, The Sex of “Hindoo” Children: Religion and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America

Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado, Girls’ Sexuality and Narratives of Exploitation in Early Twentieth-Century Teen Marriages

Comment: Richard Godbeer, University of Miami

Queer Margins and American Youth
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Columbia Hall 7 (Washington Hilton)

Chair: Gillian Frank, Princeton University

Joey Plaster, Yale University, Vanguard Revisited: Queer Ritual and World Making in the Tenderloin

Daniel W. Rivers, Ohio State University, The Children of 1969: Growing up in Queer Cultures of the 1970s

Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University, Queer Margins in Early Twentieth-Century Domestic and Pedagogic Places

Comment: Gillian Frank, Princeton University

#ALTAC-Q: LGBTQ Historical Scholarship and Alternative Academic Careers
Saturday, January 4, 2014: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Johnson Room (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Alexandra M. Lord, Ultimate History Project

Christianne Gadd, Lehigh University
Shane Landrum, Florida International University
Ian K. Lekus, South Asian Arts Council
Bonnie Morris, George Washington University

Comment:Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park

Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 4: Governmentality and LGBT Lives

Chair: David Serlin, University of California, San Diego

Steve Estes, Sonoma State University, The Dream That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Civil Rights Rhetoric and the Fight for Gay Military Service

Amy Harris, Purdue University, Same-Sex Marriage and the Construction of Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa

Anita A. Kurimay, Bryn Mawr College, The Politics of Archives and the Fraught History of Queer Hungary

Emily E. Skidmore, Texas Tech University, Migrants, Miscreants and Model Citizens: Female-Bodied Men and Immigration Politics, 1901-18

Local/National/Transnational Queer Interactions, Part 5: Localizing LGBT Politics in Activism, Affect, and Exchange
Sunday, January 5, 2014: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Truman Room (Marriott Wardman Park)

Chair: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University

Katie Batza, Macalester College, Oppression, Sickness, and the State: Conflicting Forms of Resistance in 1970s Los Angeles

Kevin McKenna, University of Washington, Queer Liberalism, Direct Democracy, and Political Strategies: Debates in the Fight against Seattle’s Initiative 13 and the Evolution of Civil Rights Liberalism

Monica Smith, National University of Singapore, Stepping Out of Bounds in a Globalizing World: Sri Lankan Diaspora in Lebanon, Same-Sex Desire, and Transgenderism

Comment: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University