Programs:

AHA Convention, Boston, MA

4 – 7 January 2001

Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Program
AHA Convention, Boston, MA, 4-7 January 2001

Session: BOSTON’S QUEER MEDIA OF THE 1970S AND 1980S
Chair: Marc Stein, York University
Thursday, January 4, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

Panel: Amy Hoffman, Gay Community News and Bad Attitude
Neil Miller, Gay Community News
Charley Shively, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Lavender Vision and Fag Rag
Session: USABLE QUEER PASTS: HISTORY AND ACTIVISM IN THE PRESENT
Chair/Comment: Robert Dawidoff, Claremont Graduate University
Friday, January 5, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

Panel: Mary Bonauto, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York
William B. Turner, St. Cloud State University
Urvashi Vaid, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.
Session: LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY SYLLABI DISPLAY
Friday, January 5, 11:30-2:30 p.m., Marriott, Fourth Floor Atrium, CLGH Affiliate Display Table

Session: REWRITING THE SEXUAL ENCOUNTER: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE NARRATIVES OF SEXUALITY IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
Chair: Lisa Duggan, New York University
Comment: Leila Rupp, Ohio State University
Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

Panel: “Pink, Red, and Long-Haired Enemies: Political Roots of the Los Angeles Anti-Pervert Campaigns of the Late 1930s,” Daniel Hurewitz, University of California at Los Angeles
“The Lesbian Grapevine: The Daughters of Bilitis, the Mass Media, and the Creation of Lesbian Migrant Networks in the 1960s,” Martin Meeker, University of Southern California
CITY GIRLS: WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND SPACE IN LONDON, 1880S TO 1940S
Chair: Mary Louise Roberts, Stanford University
Comment: James Eli Adams, Cornell University, and Mary Louise Roberts
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J

“Nasty Books: Sexuality and Sisterhood in Late-Victorian London,” Seth Koven, Villanova University
“Sex, Spies, and Erotic Dancing in Central London, 1890-1940,” Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
RACE, GENDER, NATION, AND EUGENICS IN LATIN AMERICA: NEW APPROACHES TO THE TOPIC
Chair: Jeffrey Lesser, Connecticut College
Comment: Alexandra M. Stern, University of Chicago
Joint session with the AHA, the Conference on Latin American History, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m., Sheraton, Beacon Room A

“Puerto Rican Eugenics: Negotiating Gender and Race between Latin America and the United States,” Laura Briggs, University of Arizona
“Eugenics and the Transformation of Public Health in Northeastern Brazil, 1925-45,” Stanley N. Blake, Colby College
“Homosexuality, Eugenics, and Race: Controlling and Curing ‘Inverts’ in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s and 1930s,” James N. Green, California State University at Long Beach
TRANSMISSION NARRATIVES: HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DANGER, RISK AND AIDS
Chair: Allan Brandt, Harvard University
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m, Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon H

“‘The Columbus of AIDS’: Reconsidering Patient Zero,” Jennifer Brier, Rutgers University
“The Social Construction and Representations of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: The Role of the Press, 1987-97,” Sam Nelson, United States Naval Academy
“Japanese Narratives of AIDS and Danger,” Sarah Pradt, Macalaster College
Session: CLGH BUSINESS MEETING
Saturday, January 6, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

FIRST PERSON VOICES, THIRD PERSON NARRATIVES: PARTNERING TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY OF DIVERSITY
Chair: Kathleen D. Roe, New York State Archives
Comment: The Audience
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 2:30-4:30p.m., Marriott, Tufts Room

“A Partnership to Preserve the History of Boston’s Diversity,” Joan Krizack, Northeastern University
“Preserving the History of Gay and Lesbian and African-American Communities in the Capital District and its Regions,” Brian Keough, State University of New York at Albany
“The Japanese American National Museum,” Luke Jerome Gilliland-Swetland, Japanese American National Museum
Session: MORE TALES FROM THE CITY: NARRATIVES OF SEXUAL TRANSGRESSION IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY METROPOLIS
Chair: Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College
Comment: Les Wright, Mount Ida College
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott, Boston College Room

“‘I Sin for Cash and Not for Charity’: Prostitutes and Professional Identity in Prohibition Era New York City,” Elizabeth A. Clement, University of Utah
“Callboys and Kripos: Policing Promiscuity in Postfascist Berlin,” Jennifer V. Evans, University of Victoria
“‘The Queerest Case I Ever Tried’: Gender, Gay Chicago, and the Trial of Fred G. Thompson, Ronald Todd Shuman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Session: CLGH Reception
Location To be announced.
Saturday, January 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Session: REGULATING SAME-SEX DESIRES AMONG IMMIGRANTS AND RACIAL MINORITIES ON THE WEST COAST, 1897-1952
Chair/Comment: Regina Kunzel, Williams College
Joint Session with the AHA
Sunday, January 7, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Sheraton, Beacon Room G

“Homo-Sexualizing, Controlling, and Sterilizing Ethnic and Racial Minority Males in the Pacific Northwest during the Progressive Era,” Peter Boag, Idaho State University
“”Migrating Masculine and Feminine: Slippery Sexuality and Gender in San Francisco, 1897-1924,” Amy Sueyoshi, University of California at Los Angeles
“‘I Am A Woman Again’: Gladys Bentley, Hormone Therapy, and the Domestication of Black Lesbian Identity in the 1950s,” David Serlin, National Library of Medicine
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