Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
2011 Annual Meeting
January 6-9, Boston, Massachusetts
Fantasies of Desire: Sex, Race, and the Politics of Performance
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 1
Thursday, January 6, 2011: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Hyannis Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Ronald Gregg, Yale University
Cookie Woolner, University of Michigan
Beau Brummells and Bulldaggers: African American Male Impersonators in the Early Twentieth Century
Whitney Strub, Rutgers University-Newark
“Hey Look Me Over”: Race and the Homophile Erotic Imaginary
David Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gay Liberation and the Construction of Queer Consumerism in Early 1970s America
Nicholas Matte, University of Toronto
Sex, Race, Money, and Politics in Transsexual Pornography of the Late 1970s
Comment: Ronald Gregg, Yale University
Same-Sex Marriage in Historical and Transnational Perspective
AHA Session 61
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 2
Friday, January 7, 2011: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Room 111 (Hynes Convention Center)
Chair: Felicia A. Kornbluh, University of Vermont
Karen M. Dunak, Muskingum University
“Out of the closets and into the chapels!”: Same-Sex Weddings and the Battle for Marriage Equality
Jens Rydstrom, Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University
“Don’t Forget that Matrimony is a Holy Act, Even When It Is a Civil Ceremony”: Changes in Sexual Norms and the Conceptualization of Gay Families in Scandinavia Since the 1990s
Christine Talbot, University of Northern Colorado
Marriage and American Citizenship: Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage
Comment: Felicia A. Kornbluh, University of Vermont
Business Meeting
Friday, January 7, 2011: 12:15 PM-1:45 PM
Vermont Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair/Presiding: Ian Lekus, Harvard University
Lesbian and Feminist Activisms in the Americas: Contested Notions of Solidarity and Citizenship in the Neo-liberal Reagan Era
AHA Session 96
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Friday, January 7, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Suffolk Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Margot Canaday, Princeton University
Claire Bond Potter, Wesleyan University
Re-Thinking Second Wave Feminism’s “Sex Wars”
Emily Hobson, University of Southern California
“Embracing Our Sisters in Solidarity”: Revolutionary Nicaragua, Reagan-Era San Francisco, and Transnational Lesbian Possibility
Lucinda C. Grinnell, University of New Mexico
Challenging “Moral Renovation”: Lesbian Activism and the 1982 Economic Crisis in Mexico City
Comment: James N. Green, Brown University
Trans Formations: New Directions in Historical Research
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 4
Friday, January 7, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Nantucket Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Sarah Richardson, Harvard University
Emily Skidmore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Boundaries Transformed: Queer Bodies, the Law, and the Mass Circulation Press at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Howard H. Chiang, Princeton University
Sex Change, Medical Science, and the Popular Press in Postwar Taiwan
Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Sex Is as Sex Does
Shane Landrum, Brandeis University
Constructed Citizens: Adoptees, Transsexuals, and the Law of Birth Certificates in the United States since 1949
Comment: Susan Stryker, Indiana University
Reception
(Co-hosted with the Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Peace History Society)
Friday, January 7, 2011: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Dartmouth Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on the History of Gay and Lesbian Organizing
AHA Session 122
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 5
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Room 205 (Hynes Convention Center)
Chair: Felicia A. Kornbluh, University of Vermont
Leila J. Rupp, University of California at Santa Barbara
Transnational Homophile Organizing: The International Committee for Sexual Equality
David Carter, independent scholar
Frank Kameny and the U.S. Homophile Movement: Reactionary or Prophet of Gay Liberation?
Pablo E. Ben, University of Northern Iowa
Peronism, the LGBT Movement, and Authoritarian Rule in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s
Comment: Felicia A. Kornbluh, University of Vermont
Homosexuality and Radicalism in International and Comparative Perspectives
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Orleans Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Ian Lekus, Harvard University
Aaron S. Lecklider, University of Massachusetts at Boston
“Love’s Next Meeting in a Threatened Space”: Sex, Antifascism, and the Spanish Civil War in American Culture
Donald L. Opitz, DePaul University, School for New Learning
The Evolution of “Manly Love of Comrades” in the Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter
Ellen Zitani, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Sibilla Aleramo, Lina Poletti, and Giovanni Cena’s Free Love in Light of Feminist and Anarchist Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
Comment: Ian Lekus, Harvard University
Del Otro Lado: Critical Analyses of Mexican (Homo)sexualities as History, from the Colonial Period to the Present
AHA Session 174
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 7
Conference on Latin American History 35
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Boylston Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Pete Sigal, Duke University
Zeb Tortorici, University of California at Los Angeles
Reading the Signs of Sodomy in Colonial Mexico
Ryan M. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“A Problem Graver than Hunger or Illiteracy”: Regulating Youths, Creating Ideal Citizens, and Sanctioning Mexico’s Homosexual Menace, 1930–70
Rodrigo Laguarda, Instituto Mora
Being Gay in Mexico City: Global Resonances in a Local Process of Identity Formation, 1968–82
Comment: Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
Black Queer Politics: Intersectional Approaches to Postwar African American Urban History
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Saturday, January 8, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Nantucket Room (Marriott Boston Copley Place)
Chair: Eduardo A. Contreras, Hunter College, City University of New York
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University-Newark
The Black Church and the Gay Rights Question: Activists and Authority in Chicago, 1964–2008
Kwame Holmes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rebuilding a More Respectable Shaw: Rethinking the Origins of Black Heteronormativity in Post-Riot Washington, D.C., 1968–72
Tristan D. Cabello, Northwestern University
Race, Urban Boundaries, and Gay Activism: The Early Days of the AIDS Epidemic in Chicago, 1978–85
Comment: Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum
AHA Session 190
Saturday, January 8, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 111 (Hynes Convention Center)
Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Panel: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago; Marc Stein, York
University; and Susan Stryker, Indiana University
Marriage Must Be Defended
AHA Session 250
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Sunday, January 9, 2011: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Room 209 (Hynes Convention Center)
Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Gillian Avrum Frank, Rowan University
“His masculinity may be threatened by your paycheck”: Conservative Women’s Defense of Marriage in the Age of Stagflation
Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University
Another “Enemy Within”: Lesbian Wives, or the Hidden Threat to the Cold War Family
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University
Under the Banner of Democracy: Promoting Eugenic Marriages in U.S. Occupied Japan
Heather White, The New College of Florida
“Love Is the Only Norm”: Situation Ethics and Sexuality Education in the Long Sixties
Comment: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary