Syllabus for histories of sexuality and religion in the twentieth-century United States.
20th and 21st Century United States
Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home
Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along?
Something New, Something Old: LGBT Voices before Stonewall
ONE, Inc., was “one of three major ‘homophile’ organizations of the 1950s and 1960s.”
Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality
Orthodox writers sought to educate Americans about Judaism’s approach to sex.
Queer Sex in the Archives: “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability"
Sometimes the queer stars align right when it’s needed most.
Sexual Histories, Scholarly Communities: The John D’Emilio Symposium
A hallmark of D’Emilio’s work was that he engaged historical sources “emotionally and intellectually,” “with his head and his heart.”
The G-Spot: Gentrification, Transformation and Queer San Francisco
The series is designed to complicate the way queerness figures in the discourse on gentrification.