AHA Convention, Chicago, IL

3 — 6 January 2003

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

Friday, January 3, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Session: IBERIAN MASCULINITIES: EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES AND CONTEXTS
Chair and Comment, Anne J. Cruz, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
“Gendering the Arbitristas: A Discourse on Masculinity in Seventeenth-Century Spain,” Elizabeth E. Lehfeldt, Cleveland State Univ.
“Constructing Masculinity: Homosexual Sodomy, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Penetrative Manhood in Early Modern Spain,” Cristian Berco, Univ. of Arizona
“The Marriage of Castrates: Evidence from an Early Modern Church Court, 1650-1750,” Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Clarion Univ. of Pennsylvania
Joint Session with AHA
Hilton, Astoria Room

Friday, January 3, 11:45-2:15 p.m.
Session: LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY SYLLABI DISPLAY
Affiliate Display Tables, Hilton, Lower Level

Friday, January 3, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session: THE INFLUENCE OF REGION AND PLACE ON QUEER IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, AND ACTIVISM IN AMERICA, 1890-2002: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Chair, John Howard, Univ. of London
“South Florida,” Fred Fejes, Florida Atlantic Univ.
“The Daughters of Bilitis and Lesbian Organizing in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, 1955-70,” Marcia Gallo, City Univ. of New York
“The Federal Impact on LGBT Activism in Washington, D.C., from 1960 to the Present,” Brett Beemyn, Ohio State Univ.
“Wide Open: Queer Comments on the Southern Plains,” Don Romesburg, Univ. of California at Berkeley
“Gay Male Identity and Community in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1930,”
Peter Boag, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Comment, The Audience
Joint Session with AHA
Palmer House, Public Dining Room 17

Saturday, January 4, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Session: CLGH BUSINESS MEETING
Hilton, Conference Room 4J

Saturday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
Session: QUEER INTERSECTIONS OF LAW AND SEXUALITY IN MID-TWENTIETH-
CENTURY U.S. HISTORY
Chair and Comment, Regina Kunzel, Williams College
“The Strange Case of Dr. Maxey and Mr. Aday: Publishing, Obscenity Law, and Public Identity,” Martin Meeker, San Francisco State Univ.
“I Observed Her Closely’: Policing Lesbianism at Women’s Prisons in Illinois, 1920-70,” L. Mara Dodge, Westfield State College
“The Most Hated Woman in America’: Madalyn Murray, Engel v. Vitale, and the Queering of American Atheism,” David Serlin, Albright College
Joint Session with AHA
Hilton, Joliet Room

Saturday, January 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Session: CLGH RECEPTION
Cosponsored by the Gerber/Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives
Location: Hilton, Boulevard Room B

Sunday, January 5, 8:30-10:30 a.m.
Session: “CONTESTED QUEENDOM”: BEAUTY CULTURE, RACE, AND SEXUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA
Chair: Geoffrey Smith, Queen’s Univ.
“Doing Race, Making Nation’: The Indian Princess Beauty Contest in Canada in the 1960s,” Patrizia Gentile, Queen’s Univ.
“Polishing Black Diamonds’: Black Models and Black Magazine Culture in Early Post-War America,” Laila Haidarali, York Univ.
“The Beauty of Drag Queens,” Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor, Univ. of
California at Santa Barbara
Comment, Elspeth Brown, Univ. of Toronto
Joint Session with AHA
Palmer House, Parlor H