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Projects

Here is a list of resources related to LGBTQ history inclusion, LGBTQ historians’ employment, member participation at the AHA, and an index to LGBTQ historically themed dissertations and theses. Click on the designated links to access:

Making the Framework FAIR: California’s History-Social Science Framework Proposed LGBT Revisions Related to the FAIR Education Act (2014)

California History – Social Science Framework (2016 Revision)

Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Survey on LGBTQ History Careers

Frequently Asked Questions about State-by-State Rights for Prospective Employment

Conference Programs

Dissertations and Theses

New Member Publications

Jerry Watkins, Queering the Redneck Riviera: Sexuality and the Rise of Florida Tourism



After World War II North Florida’s municipalities were in perpetual competition for tourists on the increasingly open market. When queer visibility threatened reputations for good clean fun, authorities moved swiftly to foreclose queer expression. Queering the Redneck Riviera recovers the forgotten and erased history of those gay men and lesbians. The work illuminates a community that boosted Florida’s emerging tourist economy and helped establish a visible LGBTQ presence in the Sunshine State. It offers new insights into the intersections of tourism, sexuality, capitalism, and conservative morality in the second half of the twentieth century.

 

Kathleen M. Brian and James W. Trent, Jr., eds, Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity



Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability. The chapters cover a broad range of topics: institutional structures that define what it means to be a man with a disability; the place of women in situations where masculinity and disability are constructed; men with physical and war-related disabilities; male hysteria, suicide clubs, and mercy killing; male disability in literature and popular culture; and more.

 

Katie Batza, Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s

Katie Batza, Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s



Katie Batza chronicles the development of a national gay health network by highlighting the politically diverse origins of longstanding gay health institutions in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, placing them in a larger political context, and following them into the first five years of the AIDS crisis. In doing so, Before AIDS recasts the existing AIDS narrative and makes interventions into historical understandings of the 1970s, gay liberation, and the role of the state in gay institution building in the late 20th century.

Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe

This book focuses on the latter half of the twentieth century, when much of northwest Europe grew increasingly multicultural with the arrival of foreign workers and (post)-colonial migrants, while simultaneously experiencing a boom in feminist and sexual liberation activism.

William Kuby, Conjugal Misconduct: Defying Marriage Law in the Twentieth-Century United States



Conjugal Misconduct reveals the hidden history of controversial and legally contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. William Kuby examines the experiences of couples in unconventional unions and the legal and cultural backlash generated by a wide array of “alternative’” marriages. These include marriages established through personal advertisements and matchmaking bureaus, marriages that defied state eugenic regulations, hasty marriages between divorced persons, provisional and temporary unions referred to as “trial marriages,” racial intermarriages, and a host of other unions that challenged sexual and marital norms.

Julio Capó, Jr., Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940



In chronicling Miami’s transnational queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Welcome to Fairyland shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Julio Capó, Jr. unearths the forgotten history of “fairyland,” a marketing term crafted by urban boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. This book turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean-particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti-to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history.

 

Zeb Tortorici, ed., Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America



Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America’s colonial and early national periods. Together the essays examine how "the unnatural” came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be “against nature”—sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation—along with others that approximated the unnatural—hermaphroditism, incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality.

Emily Skidmore, True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century



In True Sex, Emily Skidmore uncovers the stories of eighteen trans men who lived in the United States between 1876 and 1936. Despite their “unexceptional” quality, their lives are surprising and moving, challenging much of what we think we know about queer history. By tracing the narratives surrounding the moments of “discovery” in these communities – from reports in local newspapers to medical journals and beyond – this book challenges the assumption that the full story of modern American sexuality is told by cosmopolitan radicals. Rather, True Sex reveals complex narratives concerning rural geography and community, persecution and tolerance, and how these factors intersect with the history of race, identity and sexuality in America.

Bonnie D. Morris and D-M Withers, The Feminist Revolution



The Feminist Revolution revisits the second wave of women’s liberation activism in both the U.S. and England in a thematic, beautifully illustrated volume that is part coffee-table art book, part teaching text. Nine chapters look critically at the key aspects of feminist action in the 1963–1988 era: political equality, work and wages, black feminism, lesbian identity, reproductive rights and health, art and publishing, anti-war activism, and much more. Each chapter contains several sidebars on specific turning points or institutions, with careful attention to lesbian leadership in each–films, publishing, legal rights, and the women’s music movement.

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