The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Saturday, June 11, 2011 Report by Ellen Zitani During a Saturday afternoon session, attended by approximately 50 people, we held a roundtable discussion on the methods of doing transgender history. Organized by Shane Landrum , a Ph.D. candidate in American History at Brandeis University, the…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Saturday, June 11, 2011 Report by Alex Warner I had the honor and pleasure of chairing the first panel on Leather history at the Berks. The panel included presentations by three scholars: myself, Alex Warner (Rutgers Ph.D., 2011), Andrea Zanin (Ph.D. student, York University) and Jennifer…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Friday, June 10, 2011 Report by Leisa Meyer Leisa Meyer , Chair; Participants: Evelyn Blackwood, Nan Alamilla Boyd, Matt Richardson, Leila J. Rupp, Susan Stryker, Ruth Vanita, Martha Vicinus The “Lesbian Generations” Roundtable was framed by a series of questions posed to all participants,…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Friday, June 10, 2011 Report by Chad Heap I had the pleasure of commenting on the session, “Race, Sexuality, Gender and the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century American Culture.” Matthew Guterl (Indiana University, Bloomington) chaired the session. Kathleen B. Casey (University of Rochester)…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Thursday, June 9, 2011 Report by Marc Stein Approximately sixty people attended this session, which focused on the ongoing relevance and usefulness of the category “lesbian” in historical scholarship on women. !–more– In a presentation titled “Building a Circle of Lesbian Couples in the…[Read more]

Committee members participated in a nearly a dozen sessions on LGBTQ history at the 2011 Big Berks, held at the University of Massachusetts June 9-12. Those unable to attend can now read reports from a number of those sessions on our Conference Reports page . Sessions covered include “Queering the College Campus,” “Tomboys and the Heritage of…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Friday, June 10, 2011 Report by Ann Fabian I commented on the session “Tomboys and the Heritage of Gender Nonconformity in the United States, 1850s-1960.” Anne Scott McLeod chaired the session. Renee Sentilles (Case Western) read a paper on “Tomboys, Girl Sports and Western Pulp Fiction,…[Read more]

An International Conference February 2-4, 2012 Melbourne, Australia Hosted by the Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Program at La Trobe University In conjunction with the Australian Lesbian & Gay Archives and Midsumma Deadline: August 5, 2011 Keynote Speakers: Professor Jeffrey Weeks, London Southbank University Additional speakers to be confirmed…[Read more]

Fifteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women Friday, June 10, 2011 Report by Nick Syrett I had the distinct pleasure of chairing this session devoted to queer students, professors, and their classes in the twentieth-century United States. !–more– Stephanie Gilmore began the session with a paper about her current research on anti-LGBT…[Read more]

Deadline: February 15, 2011 I am putting together a panel for the 2012 AHA LGBT program that explores the intersection of LGBT identity, medicine, and health. The relationship between sexuality, health, and medicine is complex and includes topics such as AIDS, psychiatry, sex work, and pregnancy to name a few. This panel will examine how medicine [...]

The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliate society of the American Historical Association, has established the Allan Bérubé Prize to recognize outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history. While books or essays written for a broad audience are eligible…[Read more]

The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians begins this Thursday in Houston. Listed below are some sessions that we think may be of interest to members of the Committee on LGBT History. Have a look at the full program on the OAH’s website, and please let us know in the comments about any additional sessions [...]

The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliate society of the American Historical Association, will award the Audre Lorde and Gregory Sprague Prizes in 2012: The Audre Lorde Prize for an outstanding article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and/or queer history published in English. The Gregory…[Read more]

Margot Canaday’s The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press) has been awarded the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History’s 2011 John Boswell Prize. The John Boswell Prize is awarded for an outstanding book on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and/or…[Read more]

Shelley Grosjean, “A ‘Womyn’s’ Work is Never Done: The Gendered Division of Labor on Lesbian Separatist Lands in Southern Oregon” has been awarded the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History’s 2011 Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize. The Joan Nestle Undergraduate Prize is awarded for an outstanding paper on lesbian, gay,…[Read more]

My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History Allan Bérubé John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, eds. UNC Press, 2011 This anthology pays tribute to Allan Bérubé (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for [...]

Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right Whitney Strub Columbia University Press, 2010 While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the [...]

Queer Twin Cities Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project University of Minnesota Press, 2010 The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation—and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project—a [...]

Cornell University Library Ithaca, NY Deadline: March 30, 2011 This year marks 20 years since the death of Phil Zwickler, a filmmaker and journalist who devoted his talents to communicating ideas about lesbian and gay rights and the AIDS crisis. For the tenth year, Cornell University Library is able to award research grants in his honor. [...]

The LGBT Religious Archives Network is inviting applicants for a part-time archivist to work 10 hours a month. !–more– The archivist will work with the Coordinator and Advisory Committee to: encourage LGBT religious/spiritual groups and leaders to preserve their records & papers in appropriate repositories; provide consultation to these…[Read more]