"The Emergence of the Invisible Deviant circa 1950 and What That Meant for Queer U. S. History"

"The Emergence of the Invisible Deviant circa 1950 and What That Meant for Queer U. S. History"
Jim Schultz, Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA

Monday, September 27, 2010   4-6pm     119 Humanities Building
Lesbian/gay history and transgender history have usually been written independent of, sometimes in explicit competition with, each other. Focusing first on a constellation of noteworthy events around 1950, this talk outlines the patterns that emerge if one tracks the combined history of same-sex and cross-gender in the United States from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century.