AHA Convention, San Francisco, CA
3 – 6 January 2002
Friday, January 4, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Hilton, Union Square 17/18
Session: THE SEXUAL IS POLITICAL: SEXUALITY IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY FROM THE LATE NINETEENTH TO THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Chair: Leisa Meyer, College of William and Mary
“‘Alas, the Mollycoddle’: Civil Service Reform and the Intermediate Sex in the United States,”
Kevin P. Murphy, New York University
“The ‘Rise and Fall’ of Sexual-Psychopath Laws in the United States, 1936–74,” Paul Herman, Stanford University
“Conservatism and the American Electorate in the Late Twentieth Century: The Case of Lesbian/Gay Rights,” William B. Turner, St. Cloud State University
Comment: Margot Canaday, University of Minnesota
Joint Session with AHA.
Friday, January 4, 11:30–2:30 p.m., Hilton, Ballroom Level West Lounge
Session: LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY SYLLABI DISPLAY
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m., Hilton, Union Square 17/18
Session: FRONTIERS OF DESIRE: SEXUALITY, EMPIRE, AND NATION IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Chair: Charles Middleton, University of Maryland
“‘I Went Pale With Pleasure’: The Body, Sexuality, and National Identity Among French Travelers to Algiers in the Nineteenth Century,” Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
“William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey: Transposing the Whereabouts of Identity,” Jesse Lord Johnson, Fordham University
“Margins at the Center: Unnatural Assault Trials of Muslin and West Indian Men in Nineteenth-Century London,” Charles Upchurch, Rutgers University Comment: Patricia Lorcin, Texas Tech University
Joint Session with AHA.
Friday, January 4, 2:30–4:30 p.m., Hilton, Union Square 21
Session: THE “HOMINTERN” IN THE ARTS: HISTORICIZING AMERICAN GAY COMPOSERS
Chair: Lane Fenrich, Northwestern University
“Samuel Barber: The ‘Conservative’ As Queer Artist,” Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University
“Queerness, Eruption, Bursting: U.S. Musical Modernism at Midcentury,” Nadine Hubbs, University of Michigan
“Britten, Copland, and Transatlantic Queer Musical Connexions,” Philip Brett, University of California, Los Angeles
Comment: Lane Fenrich
Joint Session with AHA.
Friday, January 4, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Session: CLGH RECEPTION
Location: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California, 973 Market St. (near Fifth Street), Suite 400
Saturday, January 5, 9:30–11:30 a.m., Hilton, Union Square 5/6
Session: CROSSING SEXUAL FRONTIERS, CONSTRUCTING SEXUAL HIERARCHIES
Chair: Ramon A. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
“‘Certainly We Interfere’: Thwarting Student Sexual Transgression in Cold War Ann Arbor,” Tim Retzloff, University of Michigan
“Boys Will Be Boys: Panty Raids and Homosexual Rings in Missouri’s Cold War Era,” LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Inventing Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Media Responses to U.S. Supreme Court Rulings,” 1965–1973,? Marc Stein, York University
Comment: Ramon A. Gutierrez
Joint Session with AHA.
Saturday, January 5, 1:00–2:15 p.m., Hilton, Union Square 8
Session: CLGH BUSINESS MEETING
Saturday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Renaissance Parc 55, Barcelona II
Session: PLACE, POLITICS, AND SEXUALITY IN 1960S AND 1970S SAN FRANCISCO
Chair: Lisa Duggan, New York University
“‘But Was It Gay?’: The Geography of Race and Sexuality of San Francisco’s El Intimo,” Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, University of California, Los Angeles
“Anatomy of a Riot: The Role of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Disturbance in the Politicization of San Francisco’s Transgender Community,” Susan Stryker, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
“Waves of Resistance: Place, Class, and Homosexuality in San Francisco Bay Area Draft Resistance Organizing During the Vietnam War,” Ian Lekus, Duke University
Comment: Lisa Duggan
Joint Session with AHA.
Sunday, January 6, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Hilton, Union Square 8
Session: AT THE EDGE OF THE MARGIN: QUEER COMICS, QUEER HISTORIES (40 people)
Chair: Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis
“James Bond(age): Harry Chess (The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.) and Durable Masculinities,” Michael J. Murphy, Washington University in St. Louis
“Dragon Ladies and Criminal Lesbians: Dangerous Women in an American Comic Strip, 1934-1946,” Jeet Heer, York University
“Wonder Womyn: Lesbocentric” (And Is This A Bad Thing?),” Trina Robbins, Independent Scholar
Comment: Andrea Friedman
Sunday, January 6, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., Hilton, Union Square 8
Session: QUEERING LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY AT THE RURAL-URBAN FRONTIER IN SCANDINAVIA: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (40 people)
Chair: Judith Halberstam, University of California, San Diego
“‘I Should Have Been Born a Boy’: Queering the Lesbian Assumption,” Tuula Juvonen, University of Tampere
“The Meaning of the Village Queer,” Svante Norrhem, Umea University
“From Sinner to Citizen: The Transgression from the Bestiality to the Homosexuality Paradigm in Rural Sweden,” Jens Rydstrom, Stockholm University
“Metanarratives and Local Meanings: Fornication Trials in Eastern Finland in the 1950s,” Antu Sorainen, University of Helsinki
Comment: Judith Halberstam