The Committee on LGBT History, San Francisco State University, and the GLBT Historical Society will be hosting their second queer history conference, QHC 2022. Join historians, K12 educators, and activists to share, discuss, and debate the import of our collective past. Panels and workshops will showcase the newest directions and development in the histories of same-sex sexuality, trans identity, and gender-nonconformity. For more information and to register, please click here.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Note: All times, including for virtual sessions, are in Pacific Standard Time. Click here to see what time that is where you live.
San Francisco State University currently mandates vaccinations for all attendees and an indoor mask mandate is still in place. Click here for more details about Covid policies at SFSU.
SUNDAY
Opening Reception, Presidential Patio, San Francisco State University
Administration Building 5th Floor (Outdoor) Patio
5:00-7:00pm
MONDAY
8:00 – 9:00am – Check in/Pick up Registration Packets
9:00 – 10:30am – Panel Session 1
Queering the Campus: Students, Faculty, and LGBTQ+ Lives in America and Britain
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Tim Retzloff, Michigan State University
Oxford’s Aesthetes: Colourful Students and Male Homosexuality, c.1885-1935
Dominic Janes, Keele University
A Theatrical Training Ground: Queer Network Building at Princeton University in the 1930s
Joseph M. Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso
“A Festival of Joy and Liberation”:
The Politics of Gay Awareness Weeks on California College Campuses in the 1970s
David A. Reichard, California State University Monterey Bay
Archival Alchemy: Sarah Schulman’s Queer Method and the History of Queer Studies
Rachel Corbman, Mount Holyoke College
Comment: Tim Retzloff
Archivo El Insulto: Grassroots Archiving & Queer Display of Erotica in Mexico
Burk Hall 358
Chair: Víctor Macías-González, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Panelists:
Adolfo Vega, Archivo El Insulto
Michelle Davó, Art Institute of Chicago
Zeb Tortorici, New York University
Comment: Anne Rubenstein, York University
AIDS Comes Home
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Stephen Vider, Cornell University
Housing First, Housing Works: Harm Reduction & Housing Politics
Salonee Bhaman, Yale University
Buddy Programs and the Queering of the American Home
Elizabeth Alice Clement, University of Utah
The Great Gay Return: AIDS “Homecoming” Narratives and Middle America’s Fantasies of Racial Reconciliation
René Esparza, Washington University in St. Louis
Comment: Stephen Vider
Localized Postwar Queer Histories: Forging Community Across Urban and Suburban Space
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Robert Franco, Kenyon College
Answering the Call: Building Community on the Phone and the Gay Switchboard of New York
Quinn Anex-Ries, University of Southern California
The Queen City: Denver’s Homophile Organizations from 1950-1970
Nick Ota-Wang, University of Colorado Denver
“Action = Life”: The Orange County Visibility League’s Radical 1989 Protests in Suburban Space
Haleigh Marcello, University of California, Irvine
“How Will I Have to Behave as a Lesbian?”: Switchboards as Sites of Lesbian Socialization in the US and France, 1972-1997
Hannah Leffingwell, New York University
Unearthing Queer, Crip of Color Stories: Mapping our Pathways Home (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Janet Arelis Quezada
“I’m Not an AIDS Activist, I’m an Artist!”: Legacies of Chicanx Resistance through Illness and Queer Chicanx Friendship
Pablo Alvarez, Claremont Graduate University
Slowly, Queerly: A Disability Justice History
Shayda Kafai, California State University, Pomona
Excavating Queer Xicana Indigenous History: Spirit Collaboration with Marsha Gómez
Susy Zepeda, University of California, Davis
Día de los Muertos and the AIDS Epidemic: Activism in the Midst of Mourning
Mayra Garza, University of California, Davis
Comment: Janet Arelis Quezada
Making the Most of the Conference: K12 Check-in Session (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Moderators: Rick Oculto and Anne Pinkney, Our Family Coalition
Break
10:30am-12:15pm
MONDAY, 10:45am – 12:15pm – Panel Session 2
Classical Homoeroticism in the Victorian Period
Burk Hall 337
Chair: James Gilligan, San Francisco State University
Queer and There: John Addington Symonds in London
Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University
Walt Whitman’s Victorian Queer Readership
Andrew Rimby, Stony Brook University
Pederasty, Classical Reception, and the Intellectual History of Male Homosexuality
Emily Rutherford, University of Oxford
Beyond the Couple Form: Browning, Leighton, and the Queer Alcestis
Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley
LGTBIQ+ Experiences and Memory Politics in Argentina, Brazil, and Northern Mexico
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Luis de Pablo Hammeken, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Courtly Intrigues, Bordering Empires: Cross-dressing, Coloniality and Queer Parody in the History of the Royal-Imperial Casa de Tijuana (1982 to the Present)
Martín H. González Romero, El Colegio de México
A Body of One’s Own: Trans Embodiment Technologies and Knowledge-Production in Argentina, 1967-2012
Patricio Simonetto, University College London
Places of LGBTQIA+ Memory and History in Latin America
Benito Bisso Schmidt, Universidade Federale do Rio Grande do Sul
Comment: Luis de Pablo Hammeken
Rethinking Spirituality and the Occult in the Era of Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Greta Rensenbrink, Marshall University
Into the Dark: Occult Animacies and the Goddess, 1968-1982
Abram J. Lewis, Grinnell College
Queer Occultism: Urban Space and Underground Economies, 1970-1980
Rachel Pitkin, City University of New York
“We Are Dancing the Great Dance of Your Coming”:
Radical Faeries, RFD Magazine, and the Rise of Queer Witchcraft, 1973-1981
Nikita Shepard, Columbia University
When You Don’t “Dig Religion” But You’re Meeting in a Church: New York City’s Gay Movement and Religious Meeting Spaces After Stonewall, 1969-1970
Heather R. White, Harvard Divinity School
Comment: Greta Rensenbrink
Building Digital Collections in LGBTQ+: A Publisher’s Perspective
Burk Hall 251
In this presentation, we will introduce ProQuest’s existing and forthcoming collections in LGBTQ+ history, including LGBT Thought and Culture, LGBT Studies in Video, LGBT Magazine Archive, and Queer Pasts. We will tell the story behind different products and how they came to fruition–definition of the content, work with editors, archives, publishers, and distributors. We will also showcase the applications for teaching and research and how these products reflects scholarship trends.
Presenters:
Nathalie Duval, Director of Product Management, ProQuest, a Clarivate Company
Disturbing Queer History in “So-Called” Canada (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Suzanne Lenon, University of Lethbridge
Disrupting Historical Narratives on Pride in Canada
Cassandra Lord, University of Toronto
Black Queer Life and the Deracialization of of Gay Blood in Blood Donation
OmiSoore H. Dryden, Dalhousie University
“With Approval from Our Founders”:
Pride Toronto and the Misappropriation of Canada Heritage Grants
Tom Hooper, York University
Queer/ing Settler Colonialism and Colonizing Pride
Laura Hall, Carleton University
Comment: Suzanne Lenon
K12 Teaching Tactics (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Panelists:
Brian Carlin, New York City Department of Education
Stacie Brensilver Berman, New York University
Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College
LUNCH
Library 121
2:15 – 1:15pm
MONDAY, 1:30pm – 3:00pm – Panel Session 3
Transgender Representation in South and Southeast Asia
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Todd Henry, University of California, San Diego
Can We Kathoeys Truly Speak and is it Possible to Speak in our own Words?: Finding a Way to Subjectivize Kathoey in Historiography
Esther C. Suwannanon, University of Victoria
Narrativizing the History of the Nupi Mani, the Indigenous Trans Community of Northeast India
Maisnam Arnapal, University of California, Santa Barbara
On the Margins of the Margins of the Circle City (Indianapolis)
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Eric Gonzaba, California State University, Fullerton
Imagining Musical Place: Race, Heritage, and African American Musical Landscapes
Jordan Ryan, History Concierge
“Walk a Mile in their Pumps”:Combating Discrimination within Indianapolis’s Queer Community
Nicole Poletika, Indiana Historical Bureau
Circle City Strife: Gay and Lesbian Activism During the Hudnut Era
Sam Opsahl, Indiana Humanities
Queering Women, Sex, and Youth in Colonial Settings
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Scott De Orio
Rites of Passage and the Liminal Sexuality of Youth in Colonial East Africa
Corrie Decker, University of California, Davis
(Un)Making the Ottoman Women: War Orphans, Female Homoeroticism, and Adolescent Female Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire
Tuğçe Kayaal, Furman University
The Miracle of Sex: Spirituality, Sacred Lands, and Gender in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Mardin
Kelly Hannavi, University of Michigan
Tradition and Transition: Courtesans and the Early Colonial State in Nineteenth-Century Delhi
Noble Shirivastava, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Legal Consciousness in Mid-Twentieth Century Queer and Trans History
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Anna Lvovsky, Harvard University
“Rarely has the law been used in such a ridiculous and unscientific fashion”:
Mayhem and the Making of Trans Medicine
Beans Velocci, University of Pennsylvania
Pants and Positivism
Kate Redburn, Yale University
From Conflict to Consensus: Movement-Government Relations Surrounding the Introduction of Dutch Public Policy on Homosexuality from 1982 to 1986
Robert J. Davidson, University of Amsterdam
Comment: Anna Lvovsky
Re-Framing Queer Histories before the Twentieth Century (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Emily Skidmore, Texas Tech University
The Transgender Empress?
Cheryl Morgan
Tracing Black Women’s Queer Intimacies in the Pre- Emancipation United States
Candice Lyons, University of Texas, Austin
Mapping Historical Presences and Erasures in the Andes: Clues to Gender and Sexual Diversity in Pre-Hispanic Communities
Hugo Benavides, Fordham University
María Fernanda Ugalde, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Illuminating Queer Power: Re-conceptualizing the Modjadji “Rain Queens” of South Africa
Yaari Felber-Seligman, City College of New York, CUNY
Break
3:00pm-3:15pm
MONDAY, 3:15pm – 4:45pm – Panel Session 4
OUT of Site on Campus: Performing Place-based Queer Histories in Collaboration with K-12 and College Students (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Presenter: Seth Eisen, Eye Zen Presents
Eye Zen Presents, a San Francisco theater company conducts archival research about LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people as a foundation for making original live theater that illuminates underrecognized queer ancestors who have been silenced and hidden due to social and political oppression. This presentation will investigate our tactics to make queer histories more visible through immersive, site-responsive spectacles in public space and on K-12 and college campuses. In this talk Artistic Director Seth Eisen will discuss effective ways of engaging students and the general public in archival storytelling. Eisen discusses the artistic strategies for bringing these histories to the wider public using videos and images. Perfect for K-12 and college educators and people interested in the process of archival storytelling with queer history.
Queering Consumer Spaces: Bookstores and Theme Parks as Sites of Queer History
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge
Gay Days: A Queer History of Theme Parks
Bryan David, University of Nevada, Reno
People Like Us: Queer Bookstores as Sites of Community Building
Sarah Dunne, University of California, Santa Barbara
Historicizing the LGBT Bookstore vs. the Women’s Bookstore
Bonnie J. Morris, University of California, Berkeley
Unearthing Private Lives: Reconsidering Sources for LGBTQ Biography
Burk Hall 337
Chair: William Peniston
Piecing Together Fragments: The Lives and Friendship of a 1930s Butch Lesbian and a Transgender Man
Shad Reinstein and Jody Laine
Reading between the Lines: Finding Queer Lives in Newspapers
George Robb, William Paterson University
Scraps of Gay Culture: A Collage of the Life of Ogden Salmon
James Kaser, The College of Staten Island, CUNY
Less Equal than Others: Queers and Sexual Citizenship in Democratic Italy
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Peter Edelberg, University of Copenhagen
Without Distinction of Sex?
The Construction of the Homosexual Anti-Citizen in 1950s Italy.
Alessio Ponzio, University of Saskatchewan
A Breach in the Sexual System?: How Women Police Officers Subverted and Supported the Sexual Order in Italy
Molly Tambor, Long Island University Post
The Italian Way to the Straight State
Domenico Rizzo, Università degli Studi di Napoli, L’Orientale
S/M and Sexual Citizenship in Italy (1970s and 1980s): Between Political Reflections and Commercialisation
Virginia Niri, Università degli Studi di Genova
Introducing Q+PUBLIC, a New Book Series (PUBLISHING)
This panel will open with tributes to Jeffrey Escoffier (1942-2022), who was slated to present.
Burk Hall 338
Chair: E. G. Crichton, University of California Santa Cruz
Queer(ing) Perspectives on Consent
Shantel Buggs, Florida State University
Dances of Time and Tenderness
Julian Carter, California College of the Arts
Queer People Need to be both Seen and Heard
Ajuan Mance, Mills College
Contested Sexual Identities in Latin America (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Martín H. González Romero, El Colegio de México
Perils of One-Eyed Gaze: The Famous Female Tapada of Lima … and Some Male Tapados
Magally Alegre Henderson, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Homosociability in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City
Mauricio Pajón, University of Texas
The Bisexual Erasure of Emiliano Zapata
Robert Franco, Kenyon College
5:30-7:30pm – GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECEPTION AT STRUT
470 Castro Street. Take the M train to Castro Station.
TUESDAY, 9:00 – 10:30am – Panel Session 1
Sexuality, Politics, and Space: Queer Women from Mexican California to Today
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Eric Gonzaba, California State University, Fullerton
Panelists:
Alex Ketchum, McGill University
Annelise Heinz, University of Oregon
Yvette J. Saavedra, University of Oregon
Coalitions, Visibility, and Policy: Queer Communities and Electoral Politics in the Late 20th-Century U.S.
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Sarah Chinn, Hunter College
“The Survival of Our Community:” Detroit’s Anti-Pornography Zoning Ordinance, Citizenship, and Heteronormatvity
Erin Barry, Washington University
A Seat at the Table: The Rise of LGBTQ Electoral Politics in New York City in the 1990s
Stephen Petrus, LaGuardia Community College
“The Courageous Champion”: Queer Allyship in post-1967 Detroit Politics
Georgina Hickey, University of Michigan Dearborn
From ‘psychopathic personality’ to ‘severely disabled’: Congressional politics, disability rights, and HIV-AIDS health care advocacy in the 1980s
Jonathan Bell, University College London
Public Queer History in Atlanta, Then and Now
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
Panelists:
Paul Fulton Jr., Gay Atlanta Flashback
Martin Padgett, Georgia State University
Eric Solomon, Emory University
Methodologies for Writing Queer History Before the Late Nineteenth Century
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Laura Stokes, Stanford University
Nonbinary Gender and Queer Historical Methods Before Modernity
Leah DeVun, Rutgers University
Transing as Method & the Future of Non-Binary Histories
Jen Manion, Amherst College
Politics as Method and Queer History Before the Late Nineteenth Century
Charles Upchurch, Florida State University
Comment: Anna Clark, University of Minnesota
Global Encounters with Sexual Science, 1880-1930 (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Regina Kunzel, Yale University
An Emerging but Failed Attempt: Translating Edward Carpenter and Defending Homosexuality in Modern China
Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu, National Chengchi University,
Literariness, or Sexology Otherwise
Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State University
Queering Psychiatry: the Homosexual voice in Krafft-Ebing’s Works
Douglas Ogilvy Pretsell, La Trobe University,
On Deviant Habits: Prison Love-Letters and the Queer Sciences of the State in Late Colonial India
Rovel Sequeira, University of Pennsylvania
Comment: Keguro Macharia
Removing Rose-colored Glasses: Queering Reaganism in the High School Classroom (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Panelists:
Sadie Queally-Sammut, Saint Francis High School
Serene Williams, Sacred Heart Preparatory Schools
Geneva Williams, Lavender History Project
Break
10:30am-10:45am
TUESDAY, 10:45am – 12:15pm – Panel Session 2
Mexico City’s Gay World, 1930s-1960s
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Anne Rubenstein, York University
Rojos y Maricones: The Experiences of two Spanish Gay Men Exiled in Mid-Twentieth-Century Mexico
Luis de Pablo Hammeken, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Homosexuality and crime in the Mexico City Press, ca. 1950-1960
Víctor M. Macías-González, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
“Gendarmes de a pié”: Raids and the Socialization Practices of Sexual Dissidents (heterodoxos), Mexico City, 1917-1952
Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla
Film as Interlocutor: Representing Queerness Through the Film No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Margaret Galvan, University of Florida
Panelists:
Justin Hall, California College of the Arts and Producer, No Straight Lines
Vivian Kleiman, Director and Producer, No Straight Lines
Ajuan Mance, Mills College, Artist/Participant, No Straight Lines
Not Thinking Straight: Making Abolitionist Geographies Through Queer of Color Critique
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Jeffrey McCune, Jr., University of Rochester
“I’m Gay But I Don’t Put Myself in that Category”: Gay Militants, Black Queens, and Alternative Safe Spaces”
Christina Carney, University of Missouri
“Those Who Mean His Destruction As Surely As They Mean Mine”: 1970s and 1980s Queer and Feminist of Color Discourse on Straight Men of Color
Nic John Ramos, Drexel University
A Street Mural for Black Trans Lives: Historical Convergences, Urban Planning, & Trans of Color Critique along Baltimore’s North Charles Street
Sa Whitley, Dartmouth College
Comment: Marlon Bailey, Arizona State University
Debating and Contesting Pathology
Burk Hall 333
Chair: William Kuby, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
An Imagined Pre-Colonial Africa: Contestations Over Sex, Sexuality, and Gender in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Lwando Scott, University of the Western Cape
Redefining Sexual Liberation in Transnational Queer Activist Spaces:Debates about Pedophilia in the International Lesbian and Gay Association, 1991-1995
Riley Wolfe, York University
“Later He Became a Drug Addict and a Chronic Homosexual”: Excavating the Roots of Pathology
John Stuart Miller, University of Southern California
A Roundtable on Queer Pasts, a New Digital History Project (PUBLISHING)
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Ardel Haefele-Thomas, City College of San Francisco
Panelists:
Lisa Arellano, Mills College
Laura Fugikawa, Colby College
Marc Stein, San Francisco State University
Queering Eastern Europe (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Josh Armstrong, Stanford University
In Search of Queer Women’s Histories in Romania’s Communist Times
Ramona Dima, University of Stavanger
Queering Historical Temporality: Polish Anarchist Lesbian and Queer Zines after Transition, 1989
Basia Dynda, University of Warsaw
Backward Queerness: Writing about Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Early Modern Balkans
Mišo Kapetanovic, Austrian Academy of Science
LUNCH
Library 121
12:15 – 1:15pm
Archivists and Allies Brown Bag Lunch, Hosted by the GLBT Historical Society
Meet outside SFSU Library, 12:00-1:30pm
TUESDAY, 1:30pm – 3:00pm – Panel Session 3
Strategies for Documenting and Memorializing Queer History
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Pussy Palace Oral History Project: Sensory Portraits of Public Sex
Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto, and Alisha Stanges, LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
@queer_modernisms: Imaging the Queer Past on Instagram
Jesse Ataide, San Francisco State University
Towards a Marica History of Peru: The Vision of its Eternal Vanquished
Nathanael Peralta Luis, Crónicas de la Diversidad
In Living Memory: A Memorial Outline for David Madson & AIDS in Minnesota
Noah Barth, Minnesota Historical Society
Surveilled Privates in Public: Social Histories of Queer Counterpublics in the Modern United States
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Scott Larson, University of Michigan
Queer Coolie Redux: Revisiting Chinese American Bachelor Sexuality in the Gilded Age
Henry E. Chen, University of Michigan
“Female impersonation seemed so vital to the war effort”: Sailors in drag, Navy Counterpublics, and Thinking Queerly about War Narratives
Camille J. Brown, University of Michigan
Trans of Color Organizing in The Shadow of The Formal Economy: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and Antidiscrimination Law, 1970-1973
Alex Burnett, University of Michigan
“I Like Your Shoelaces”: Online Queer Community-Building and Surveillance
Lise Lao, University of Michigan
Sex and Marriage in Legal Historical Contexts; From the US to Berlin and Back, 1880- 1985
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Karen C. Krahulik, New York University
“A Legal Form of Marriage”: The Legal Regime of Queer Marriage from 1880-1910
Brianne Felsher, University of California, Berkeley
Certifying Sex: The Origins of the Provider’s Letter
Elias Lawliet, University of California, Berkeley
Constructing a “Cis State”: Title VII, Transsexual Workers, and “Biological Sex,” 1970-1984
Shay R. Olmstead, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Comment: Karen C. Krahulik, New York University
Queer Histories in Southern Alberta: Memory, Museums, and the Intergenerational (Re)Making of Place
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Jarett Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
The (Bio)Politics of Queer in a Small Canadian Prairie City
Suzanne Lenon, University of Lethbridge
Museums, Not-For-Profits, Queer Kids, and History
Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge & Kaitlynn Weaver, University of Lethbridge
Posing InQueeries: Queer Oral Histories and Queer Youth
Liam Devitt, Concordia University
Documentation as activism:
Film screening of “AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman” followed by a Q and A.
Burk Hall 333
Restoring public memory of the exceptional and compelling AIDS/trans rights activist/humanist of ‘90s Los Angeles. [ www.aidsdivaconnie.com ]
Moderator: Erin Barry, Washington University in St. Louis
Panelists:
Dante Alencastre, Director/Producer, “AIDS DIVA,” Los Angeles
John Johnston. Producer, “AIDS DIVA,” Los Angeles
Out of our Buses, Bars, Beds, and Classrooms!: Mid-20th century US LGBTQ resistance to Discriminatory Policing Practices (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Emily Hobson, University of Nevada, Reno
Pauli Murray and Bayard Rustin’s Queer Nonviolence
Simon D. Elin Fisher, University of Wisconsin, Madison
José Sarria’s 1961 campaign for San Francisco City Supervisor and the Birth of the Idea of a Gay “Community”
Mori Reithmayr, University of Oxford
Guy Strait and the Making of “Bad” Queers in the Long 1970s
Scott De Orio
Comment: Emily Hobson
Break
3:00pm-3:15pm
TUESDAY, 3:15pm – 4:45pm – Panel Session 4
Strategies for Activism and Liberation Across the Globe
Burk Hall 251
Chair: La Shonda Mims, Middle Tennessee State University
“Advancing a Sane Concept of Sexuality”:The Unlikely Allyship of Playboy Magazine
David Ferrara, University of Alabama
The White Supremacist Homomythopoetics of Elisar von Kupffer
Ben Miller, Freie Universität Berlin
Queer and Allied Resistance to Antigay Propositions in Tacoma, Washington
Gracie Anderson, Pacific Lutheran University
Constitutional Queens: The First Riot for LGBTQ Rights in Peru (1978)
Giancarlo Mori Bolo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Regulating Sex Between Men and Boys in the Anglophone World, 1840s-1910s
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Thomas Balcerski, Eastern Connecticut State University
“A More Systematic, Wanton, and Undignified, and Infamous Persecution Never was Shown towards any British Subject”: Unnatural Sex, Settler Self-Government, and Queering British Subjectness in 1840s Prince Edward Island
Jarett Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Gracelyn Barmore-Pooley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mapping the Prosecution of Sexualized Behaviors between Males in Lancashire County, England, 1850-1970: A Longitudinal Study
J. G. M. Evans, Liverpool John Moores University and K. G. Valente, Colgate University
Fallen Boys: Sex Work and the Question of Rescue
Yorick Smaal, Griffith University
Marginalized Voices and Hidden Histories: Preserving and Unlocking the Past with Gale’s Archives of Sexuality & Gender and Beyond
Burk Hall 256
Moderator: Philip Virta, Coordinating editor of the Archives of Sexuality and Gender program, Gale, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Entering the Archive of Second Wave Trans Teminisms in Print
Emily Cousens, University of Oxford
Lesbian Feminist Literary Networks, 1950s-1980s
Catherine Kelly, King’s College London
Archives of Passion: Archival Ideologies and Practices in Dutch Lesbian and Gay Archives
Noah Littel, Maastricht University
Teaching Trans History: Methods for Sustaining Trans-Affirming Social Studies K-12 Education (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Panelists:
Jaden Janak, University of Texas, Austin
Joanna Batt, University of Texas, Austin
Ahistorical Affects: Gender Feelings in the Presence of the Past (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington
Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Non-Binary Structures of Feeling
Stephanie Clare, University of Washington
“…she has her hair cut short for the purpose…”: Reading Queerness, Reading Freedom Praxis
Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky
Towards a Trans Retrospectatorship: Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc and Filmic Gender
Maxine Savage, University of Washington
Squad Goals: Queer Affect and Group Work
Tyler Bradway, State University of New York at Cortland
Comment: Laurie Marhoefer
TUESDAY, 4:00-5:00pm – GLBT Historical Society Archives Tour
989 Market Street
You must sign up in advance here.
TUESDAY EVENING: On Your Own!
Options include:
FORGED (National Queer Arts Festival): Stellium Magazine presents Forged, an online literary arts event celebrating queer and trans Black and POC writers. Virtual, 7:00PM. To register, visit https://queerculturalcenter.org/national-queer-arts-festival/
Screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman (National Queer Arts Festival)
The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, 6:30 pm
Marc Stein, “Queer Transformations at San Francisco State, 1969-1972”
San Francisco Public Library Hormel Center, Third Floor, 6:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, 9:00 – 10:30am – Panel Session 1
Representing and Remembering Queer Spaces
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Chelsea Del Rio, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
The Role of the Torremolinos in the Queer History of Spain: New Narratives beyond Madrid and Barcelona
Javier Cuevas, University of Malaga
“Busting Up the Baths”: Toronto’s Queer Past and the Legacy of the Barracks Raid in The Body Politic
Jessica Wilton, York University
Black Eagle Bar, White Gay Men: Toronto’s Black Eagle Leather/Denim Bar and Evolving Queer Space
Gary Myers, York University
Transnational Perspectives on Trans* Identity and Resilience:
Gender-Expansive Histories from the Weimar Republic to the US South
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
“I can only be seen as a full human being in women’s clothes”: A Story of Liminality, Worth and (Trans)gendered Selfhood in Nazi Germany.
Zoe Nunn, University of Oxford
Transness in Li Shiu Tong’s Sexology: Trans Spy Outwits Nazis
Laurie Marhoefer, University of Washington, Seattle
Trans* Houston: Histories of Resistance from the Late Twentieth Century
Marissa Brameyer, Texas Tech University
Trans Print: Community Identity and Self Determination in the late Twentieth Century United States
Daniel Rodriguez Arrizon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Comment: Jen Manion, Amherst College
Church Closets: Queerness in Evangelical Spaces
Burk Hall 251
Chair: Heather R. White, Harvard Divinity School
“Love Them Into Changing”: A Survey of Evangelical Discourse on Homosexuality in Christianity Today, 1956-1989
Mary Gently, Rutgers University
Latent Transphobia in the Episcopal Church and the Prophetic Response
Joshua Waits, Georgia Highland College
“Far from the Peaceful Shore”: Pentecostalism, Queer Sexualities, and the Global South
La Shonda Mims, Middle Tennessee State University
Continuity, Criminalization, and Conversion: Queer Students at Southern Christian Colleges
Elissa Branum, Rutgers University
Comment: Matthew Sutton, Washington State University
Racialized Imagery and Transnational Queer Visual Culture
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Zeb Tortorici, New York University
Queer As Paint
Anne Rubenstein, York University
Michelangelo’s David – Queer Identity, Whiteness, and Rethinking Beauty
David S. Churchill, University of Manitoba
Mexican Men on the Gay Erotic Market (1980s-1990s)
Juan Carlos Mezo-González, University of Toronto
Comment: Zeb Tortorici
Queer Careers in Educational and Non-Profit Administration: A Roundtable
Burk Hall 333
Moderator: Nick Syrett, University of Kansas
Panelists:
Karen Krahulik, New York University
Mark Sawchuk, GLBT Historical Society
Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University
(Un)Making Discourses of Queer Legal and Political Activism: Remembering Leather, Queer Punk, and Non-Monogamy Radicalism (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Jarett Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
White Picket Fences: The Nuclear Family, Monogamy, and Queer Kinship
Rachel Jobson, Carleton University
“Vicious fags and dykes:” Mapping an Aesthetics of Abjection in Queercore’s History
Emma Awe, Carleton University
“I seized on the name ‘Phalia’”: The politics of legitimacy and leather, 1970s to 1990s
Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University
WEDNESDAY, 10:45am – 12:15pm – Panel Session 2
The Future of the Committee on LGBT History
Burk Hall 251
Facilitators:
Chelsea Del Rio, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, and CLGBTH Co-Chair
Eric Gonzaba, California State University, Fullerton and CLGBTH Co-Chair
Forgetting Stonewall? New Periodizations in European Queer History
Burk Hall 338
Chair: Alessio Ponzio, University of Saskatchewan
From Criminal Radicalism to Gay and Lesbian Activism: A New Periodization in Scandinavian LGBT history 1948-1971
Peter Edelberg, University of Copenhagen
Transnationality, Nationality and Regionality in Dutch Lesbian and Gay Activism
Noah Littel, Maastricht University
Beyond Barcelona & Nuancing New York: Challenging Transplanted Narratives in Queer Revolutions
Ona Bantjes-Ràfols, Carleton University
Escaping Stonewall?: Gay Liberation in 1970s West Germany
Craig Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University
Queer and Trans Organizing, 1960s-1990s
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London
Rupert Raj has Resources: Trans-Masculine Mutual Aid in North America, 1972-1990
Elio Colavito, University of Toronto
Lesbian and Gay Networks in 1980s Lima Peru: The Case of the Grupo de Autoconcencia de Lesbianas Feministas and the Movimiento Homosexual de Lima
Joaquin Marreros, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
“Don’t Assume I’m a Failed Heterosexual”:
Negotiating Fat Lesbian Identities and Activism in Britain
Carlie Pendleton, Goldsmiths, University of London
Lee Brewster: Creating Queer Spaces in the 1970s
Anthony Guerrero, University of Wisconsin
Publishing in Queer History: A Roundtable with Authors and Editors (PUBLISHING)
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Nick Syrett, University of Kansas and Journal of the History of Sexuality
Panelists:
Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria
Larin McLaughlin, University of Washington Press
Dominique J. Moore, University of Illinois Press
Yvette Saavedra, University of Oregon
Local Imaginaries, Global Resistance: Trans of Color Archives & Storytelling*
Endorsed by the National Council on Public History
(ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: GVGK Tang, Independent Scholar
Panelists:
Delan Ellington, Howard University
Joshua K Reason, University of Pennsylvania
Fabian Romero, University of Washington
LUNCH
Ethnic Studies/Psychology Building Courtyard
12:15 – 1:15pm
WEDNESDAY, 1:30pm – 3:00pm – Panel Session 3
Sex, Citizenship, and Queer Identity in Divided Ireland and Germany
Burk Hall 337
Chair: Anita Kurimay, Bryn Mawr College
Queer Cruising, Policing and the Press in Post-Partition Northern Ireland
Tom Hulme, Queen’s University Belfast
“Conducting a Male Brothel”: James “Mary” Hand, Desire, and Citizenship in the Free State
Averill Earls, St. Olaf College
Friends of the state? The nature of East German state homophobia
Josh Armstrong, Stanford University
The Pink Triangle, Sexuality, and Citizenship in West Germany
Jake Newsome, Independent Scholar
Lesbianism and Trans Identities in Premodern Societies
Burk Hall 256
Chair: Mary Weismantel, Northwestern University
Leftover Peaches: Female Homoeroticism in Han China
Laurie Venters, University of Bonn
Female Homoeroticism in Lucian’s Dialogue of the Courtesans
Nicole Speth, University of Washington
Locating Trans* Identities Within the Discourse on Love Among Women in Medieval Europe
Jo Wolf, Harvard University and Virginia Tech University
Shifting Sexual and Religious Boundaries in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Case of Eleno de Céspedes
Maaian Aner, University of Oxford
Representing Queer Experiences through Theater and Self-Writing (ONLINE)
Burk Hall 249
Chair: Andrew Rimby, Stony Brook University
Queering the Archive of Black Resistance and South African Prison Writing
Z’Étoile Imma, Tulane University
City and Sexual Citizenship in the LGBT+ Theatre in Italy between the 60s and the 90s
Antonio Pizzo, University of Turin
Turkey’s Queer Historiography and Staging Queer Testimonies in Contemporary Turkish Theatre
Berkem Yanikcan, Kadir Has University
Contested and Crucial: Queer Curriculum in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries (K12)
Burk Hall 333
Chair: Amanda Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Contested Curriculum: Lessons from Early Efforts at K-12 LGBTQ-Inclusive History/Education
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Heather Has Too Many Moms: The 1990s Backlash Against Gay Children’s Books
Richard Price, Weber State University
Innovations at the Grassroots Level: LGBTQ+ History in High School Classrooms in the Twenty-First Century
Stacie Brensilver-Berman, New York University
Teaching the Teacher: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Curriculum for Teacher Prep Students and Faculty
Wendy Rouse, San Jose State University
WEDNESDAY, 4:00-5:30 pm PLENARY PANEL – Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library. Take the M train to Civic Center Station.
Representatives from the American LGBTQ+ Museum, the GLBT History Museum, Queer Britain, and others will discuss their plans for preserving and documenting the LGBT past.
Moderated by Susan Stryker, Mills College
Panelists:
Joseph Galliano, Queer Britain
Ben Garcia, The American LGBTQ+ Museum
Robert Kesten, Stonewall National Museum & Archives
Andrew Shaffer, GLBT Historical Society
WEDNESDAY, 5:30-7:30PM — Reception – 6th Floor – San Francisco Public Library
Questions should be addressed to QHC 22 organizers Amy Sueyoshi and Nick Syrett at QHC2022@gmail.com.
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QHC 22 Program Committee
Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University, Co-Chair
Nick Syrett, University of Kansas, Co-Chair
Erin Barry, Washington University in St. Louis
Darius Bost, University of Utah
Rob Darrow, California State University, Monterey Bay and Safe Schools Project
Yaari Felber-Seligman, City College of New York, CUNY
Eric Gonzaba, California State University, Fullerton
Jarett Henderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Magally Alegre Henderson, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Todd Henry, University of California, San Diego
Alessio Ponzio, University of Saskatchewan
Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
Anne Rubenstein, York University
Yorick Smaal, Griffith University
GVGK Tang, Independent Scholar
Co-host:
Sponsors:
Department of History, San Francisco State University
Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Chair in U.S. History, San Francisco State University
