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Programs:

AHA Convention, Boston, MA

4 – 7 January 2001

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

Session: BOSTON’S QUEER MEDIA OF THE 1970S AND 1980S
Chair: Marc Stein, York University
Thursday, January 4, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

  • Panel: Amy Hoffman, Gay Community News and Bad Attitude
  • Neil Miller, Gay Community News
  • Charley Shively, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Lavender Vision and Fag Rag

Session: USABLE QUEER PASTS: HISTORY AND ACTIVISM IN THE PRESENT
Chair/Comment: Robert Dawidoff, Claremont Graduate University
Friday, January 5, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

  • Panel: Mary Bonauto, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
  • Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York
  • William B. Turner, St. Cloud State University
  • Urvashi Vaid, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute.

Session: LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY SYLLABI DISPLAY
Friday, January 5, 11:30-2:30 p.m., Marriott, Fourth Floor Atrium, CLGH Affiliate Display Table

Session: REWRITING THE SEXUAL ENCOUNTER: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE NARRATIVES OF SEXUALITY IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
Chair: Lisa Duggan, New York University
Comment: Leila Rupp, Ohio State University
Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

  • Panel: "Pink, Red, and Long-Haired Enemies: Political Roots of the Los Angeles Anti-Pervert Campaigns of the Late 1930s," Daniel Hurewitz, University of California at Los Angeles
  • "The Lesbian Grapevine: The Daughters of Bilitis, the Mass Media, and the Creation of Lesbian Migrant Networks in the 1960s," Martin Meeker, University of Southern California

CITY GIRLS: WOMEN, SEXUALITY, AND SPACE IN LONDON, 1880S TO 1940S
Chair: Mary Louise Roberts, Stanford University
Comment: James Eli Adams, Cornell University, and Mary Louise Roberts
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m., Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon J

  • "Nasty Books: Sexuality and Sisterhood in Late-Victorian London," Seth Koven, Villanova University
  • "Sex, Spies, and Erotic Dancing in Central London, 1890-1940," Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University

RACE, GENDER, NATION, AND EUGENICS IN LATIN AMERICA: NEW APPROACHES TO THE TOPIC
Chair: Jeffrey Lesser, Connecticut College
Comment: Alexandra M. Stern, University of Chicago
Joint session with the AHA, the Conference on Latin American History, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m., Sheraton, Beacon Room A

  • "Puerto Rican Eugenics: Negotiating Gender and Race between Latin America and the United States," Laura Briggs, University of Arizona
  • "Eugenics and the Transformation of Public Health in Northeastern Brazil, 1925-45," Stanley N. Blake, Colby College
  • "Homosexuality, Eugenics, and Race: Controlling and Curing ‘Inverts’ in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s and 1930s," James N. Green, California State University at Long Beach

TRANSMISSION NARRATIVES: HISTORICAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DANGER, RISK AND AIDS
Chair: Allan Brandt, Harvard University
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 9:30-11:30a.m, Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon H

  • "‘The Columbus of AIDS’: Reconsidering Patient Zero," Jennifer Brier, Rutgers University
  • "The Social Construction and Representations of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: The Role of the Press, 1987-97," Sam Nelson, United States Naval Academy
  • "Japanese Narratives of AIDS and Danger," Sarah Pradt, Macalaster College

Session: CLGH BUSINESS MEETING
Saturday, January 6, 1:15-2:15 p.m., Sheraton, Clarendon Room

FIRST PERSON VOICES, THIRD PERSON NARRATIVES: PARTNERING TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY OF DIVERSITY
Chair: Kathleen D. Roe, New York State Archives
Comment: The Audience
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 7, 2:30-4:30p.m., Marriott, Tufts Room

  • "A Partnership to Preserve the History of Boston’s Diversity," Joan Krizack, Northeastern University
  • "Preserving the History of Gay and Lesbian and African-American Communities in the Capital District and its Regions," Brian Keough, State University of New York at Albany
  • "The Japanese American National Museum," Luke Jerome Gilliland-Swetland, Japanese American National Museum

Session: MORE TALES FROM THE CITY: NARRATIVES OF SEXUAL TRANSGRESSION IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY METROPOLIS
Chair: Jane Caplan, Bryn Mawr College
Comment: Les Wright, Mount Ida College
Joint session with the AHA
Saturday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Marriott, Boston College Room

  • "‘I Sin for Cash and Not for Charity’: Prostitutes and Professional Identity in Prohibition Era New York City," Elizabeth A. Clement, University of Utah
  • "Callboys and Kripos: Policing Promiscuity in Postfascist Berlin," Jennifer V. Evans, University of Victoria
  • "‘The Queerest Case I Ever Tried’: Gender, Gay Chicago, and the Trial of Fred G. Thompson, Ronald Todd Shuman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session: CLGH Reception
Location To be announced.
Saturday, January 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Session: REGULATING SAME-SEX DESIRES AMONG IMMIGRANTS AND RACIAL MINORITIES ON THE WEST COAST, 1897-1952
Chair/Comment: Regina Kunzel, Williams College
Joint Session with the AHA
Sunday, January 7, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Sheraton, Beacon Room G

  • "Homo-Sexualizing, Controlling, and Sterilizing Ethnic and Racial Minority Males in the Pacific Northwest during the Progressive Era," Peter Boag, Idaho State University
  • ""Migrating Masculine and Feminine: Slippery Sexuality and Gender in San Francisco, 1897-1924," Amy Sueyoshi, University of California at Los Angeles
  • "‘I Am A Woman Again’: Gladys Bentley, Hormone Therapy, and the Domestication of Black Lesbian Identity in the 1950s," David Serlin, National Library of Medicine

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