Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
2012 Annual Meeting
January 5-8, Chicago, Illinois
Tour 4: Chicago History Museum: Out in Chicago
Thursday, January 5, 2012: 2:30 PM-5:00 PM
Parlor A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Tour leader: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago
Join curators Jennifer Brier and Jill Austin (Chicago History Museum) for a behind the scenes tour of Out in Chicago, the Chicago History Museum’s 4,000 square-foot exhibition detailing Chicago’s century and a half long lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history. Designed specifically for historians and scholars attending the Chicago conference, this curator-led tour will focus on how the exhibit team transformed decades of historical scholarship on same-sex desire and gender non-conformity into a complex and emotionally charged public history display that appeals to a wide range of visitors. Limit 20 people: $30 members, $35 nonmembers
The Politics of Respectability Reconsidered: Using the Framework of Respectability to Examine Southern Lesbian History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 1
Thursday, January 5, 2012: 3:00 PM-5:00 PM
River North Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Benjamin E. Wise, University of Florida
Megan Shockley, Clemson University
Respectability and Lesbian Motherhood: Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman
Janet L. Allured, McNeese State University
Fashion and the Performance of Lesbian Feminist Identity
La Shonda Mims, University of Georgia
Activist or Apathetic? Lesbians and Bar Space in the Post-World War II South
Comment: Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Louisiana State University
Doing Queer History in the Twenty-First Century
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 2
Friday, January 6, 2012: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panel: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago, John A. D’Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago, Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Business Meeting
Friday, January 6, 2012: 12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Illinois Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Presiding: Ian Lekus, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Queer Politics of Managing Youth and Sex in the 1920s United States
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 3
Friday, January 6, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Wayward Sexualities, Delinquent Mentalities, and Early Twentieth-Century Youth Experts
Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado
Child Marriage and Contests over Non-Normative Sexuality in the 1920s
Allison Miller, Rutgers University
Therapeutic Discipline and Queer Youth in a School for Delinquent Girls, c. 1926
Comment: Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum
Friday, January 6, 2012: 4:45 PM-5:45 PM
Parlor E (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Speakers: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago, Marc Stein, York University, and Susan Stryker, Indiana University
Reception for the Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
Friday, January 6, 2012: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Chicago Ballroom A (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Twentieth Century Queer and Artistic Bohemias
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 4
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Michigan Room A (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Chair: Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York
Christopher Adam Mitchell, Rutgers University
Twilight of the Demimonde: Queer and Bohemian Radicalism and the “Liberation” of the Black Market Economy in Greenwich Village
Thomas W. Hafer, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Young and Evil Bohemia: Sex, Art, and Identity in the Queer Atlantic, 1930–39
H. Camilla Smith, University of Birmingham
Blue Travel at the Crossroads: Curt Moreck’s Guide to “Depraved” Berlin, 1931
Comment: The Audience
Building Community, Combating Phobia, Part 1: The Media’s Narratives on “Patient Zero” and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 5
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University
Richard A. McKay, King’s College London
Communicative Contacts: Randy Shilts, Gaétan Dugas, and the Construction of the “Patient Zero” Myth
Phil Tiemeyer, Philadelphia University
“Patient Zero” and the “Recalcitrant” Queer
David C. Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
AIDS, the Religious Right, and Gay Sex in Late 1980s North Carolina
Comment: Ian Lekus, University of Massachusetts Boston
Building Communities, Combating Phobia, Part II: LGBT Identity, Medicine, and Health
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 6
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Judith A. Houck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Treating Men at a Lesbian Clinic: Identity Politics, Feminist Organizing, and Health Care Provision, 1979 to the Present
Catherine Batza, University of Illinois at Chicago
“I Want You for a Free VD Test”: Making Sexual Health Part of Gay Identity in Chicago 1974–81
Tristan D. Cabello, Bowdoin College
Black Discos, AIDS, and the Harold Washington Administration: The Making of AIDS as a Black Gay Disease, 1975–85
John Goins, University of Houston
Politicking the Gay Cancer: Electoral Intransigence and the AIDS Response in Houston
Comment: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Bodies of Evidence: Queer Oral History Methods
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 7
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Clark Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Daniel W. Rivers, Emory University
Race, Class, Oral History, and the Liberation-Era Divide
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sharing Queer Authorities: Transgender Latina and Gay Latino Meanings
Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University
Talking about Sex: Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher Tell Their Stories
Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame
Private Lives and Public History: Excavating the Sexual Past in Queer Oral History
Comment: Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota
Race-ing the Sexual Revolution
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 8
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Gillian Frank, Stony Brook University
The Racial Origins of Family Values Politics: Abortion and Busing in Michigan, 1970–80
Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University-Newark
Making the Second Gay Ghetto: The Whitening of Queer Chicago from Daley to Daley
Heather White, New College of Florida
Liberal Protestants and “the Invisible Minority”: The Racial Politics of Pro-Gay Christian Organizing, 1955-1970
Comment: Marc Stein, York University
On These Shoulders We Stand
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Sheraton Ballroom I (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
Glenne McElhinney, producer, writer, and director (Impact Stories: California’s LGBT History, 2009). Screening and discussion of McElhinney’s film on the history of the LGBT community in Los Angeles.
Visit to the Leather Archives & Museum
Saturday, January 7, 2012: 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Join the Committee on LGBT History at the Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) at 6418 N. Greenview Ave. in the Rogers Park neighborhood for a special reception featuring an exhibit curated by fellow historian and recent Rutgers Ph.D., Dr. Alex Warner. “A Room of Her Own” is the first exhibit of the Women’s Leather History Project at the LA&M, and draws on Warner’s research for her recently completed doctoral dissertation on the history of lesbian sado-masochism in the U.S. The museum will be open exclusively for Committee on LGBT History guests and the evening will include a short guided tour of the museum and Alex’s exhibit. We assure you that public history has never been so sexy; be there!
Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 1: New Narratives in U.S. Gender and Sexuality Studies
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 9
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University
Julio Capó Jr., Yale University
“A Polluted Playground”: Gender, Sexuality, and the Consumption of Miami’s Vice Culture, 1948–60
Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University
“Sex Anarchy” and Female Sexual “Delinquency”: Young Women’s Sexual Nonconformity in the 1950s United States
Tim Retzloff, Yale University
Queer Cities and Suburban Sin Clubs: Sexual Anxieties in American Scandal and Men’s Pulp Magazines of the 1950s and 1960s
Stephanie Chalifoux, University of Alabama
“Highway Girls”: Sex Work Migration in the 1950s Rural South
Comment: David K. Johnson, University of South Florida
The Pleasures and Perils of LGBTQ Public History
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 10
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Michigan State Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University
Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota
Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History
Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory.org
Creating OutHistory.org
Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University
Going Viral with Brick-and-Mortar Queer History: Opening the GLBT History Museum
Joey Plaster, Yale University; Megan Rohrer, Pacific School of Religion
Queer Histories of San Francisco’s Tenderloin
Comment: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University
Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Lessons Learned from Integrating Minorities and Women in the U.S. Military
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 11
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Iowa Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Douglas Walter Bristol Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
Douglas Walter Bristol Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
Making Integration Work: The U.S. Military’s Race Relations Initiatives of the 1970s
David Hall, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Update on Ending the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Movement
Tanya L. Roth, Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School
Elusive Integration: The Challenges of Integrating Women into the U.S. Military
Charissa J. Threat, Northeastern University
Does the Sex of the Practitioner Matter? Sex Discrimination, Nursing, and the Army Nurse Corps in the 1950s
Comment: The Audience
Sexing Up the “Long” 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History 12
Sunday, January 8, 2012: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Addison Room (Chicago Marriott Downtown)
Chair: Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas at San Antonio
Nathan Andrew Wilson, York University
“The Gestapo Lives On”: West German and American Gay Activists and the Politics of Memory
Dasa Francikova, University of California, Santa Barbara
Going Global, Getting Personal: Transnational Lesbian Organizing and Relationships in the Long 1950s
Pablo E. Ben, University of Northern Iowa
Family Life and the Formation of Modern Homosexual Identity in Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1930–60
Ryan M. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Homosexual Narratives in the Long 1950s: The Mexican Case
Comment: Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
