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

Don Romesburg

Sonoma State University

Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies

• “Where She Comes From: Openness and Queer Transracial Adoption, ” in Lessons from the Deep School: New Perspectives on Race and the Obama Era (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)
• “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion, ” in Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, ed. Trystan Cotten (Routledge, forthcoming)
• “‘Wouldn’t a Boy Do?’: Sex Work and Male Youth in Early 20th-Century Chicago, ” Journal of the History of Sexuality 18, no. 3 (Fall 2009)
• “The Tightrope of Normalcy: Homosexuality, Developmental Citizenship, and American Adolescence, ” Special issue on Youth and Sexuality in Historical Sociology (Winter 2008)
• “Camping Out: Female Impersonators and Queer Dread of Wide-Open Spaces, ” Reconstruction 7.2 (2007)
• “Holy Fratrimony: Male Bonding and the New Homosociality, ” in BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, eds. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006)

histories of adolescence and homosexuality; transracial adoption and queer parenting