Programs:

AHA Convention, San Francisco, CA

3 – 6 January 2002

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.

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.

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.

Session: CLGH RECEPTION

Location: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California, 973 Market St. (near Fifth Street), Suite 400

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.

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.

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

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