American History Assoc. coming to Chicago, many LGBTQ and AIDS panels planned - 6462 - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News

The American Historical Association's 2012 Annual Meeting Jan. 5-8 will feature a diverse array of sessions on LGBTQ history, sponsored by the AHA Program Committee and AHA affiliate the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History.

Offerings include discussions of the challenges and opportunities of LGBTQ oral history and public history, a curator-led tour of the Chicago History Museum's exhibit on LGBTQ life in the city, and sessions discussing queer history in the context of sexuality, gender, medicine, urban history, race, and military history.

There is also an open forum sponsored by the AHA LGBTQ Historians Task Force on Friday, Jan. 6. Task force members will discuss the preliminary results of their survey of LGBTQ historians and historians who study LGBTQ topics and solicit feedback on plans for the final report they will submit to the AHA Council in June 2012.

See aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/EVENTS.html .

Thursday, January 5

2:30-5 p.m.: LAC Tour 4: Chicago History Museum: Out in Chicago

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7226.html

3-5 p.m. Session 1, joint with the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

The Politics of Respectability Reconsidered: Using the Framework of Respectability to Examine Southern Lesbian History

Chicago Marriott Downtown, River North Room.

Chair: Benjamin E. Wise, University of Florida

Papers: Respectability and Lesbian Motherhood: Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman by Megan Shockley, Clemson University

Fashion and the Performance of Lesbian Feminist Identity by Janet L. Allured, McNeese State University

Activist or Apathetic? Lesbians and Bar Space in the PostWorld War II South by La Shonda Mims, University of Georgia

Comment: Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Louisiana State University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7114.html

Friday, January 6

9:30—11:30 a.m.: AHA Session 49, CLGBTH Session 2

Doing Queer History in the Twenty-First Century

Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Erie Room. Session 2, joint with the AHA.

Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Panel: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago

John A. D'Emilio, University of Illinois at Chicago

E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6411.html

2:30 p.m.: CLGBTH Session 3

The Queer Politics of Managing Youth and Sex in the 1920s United States

Marriott Downtown, Michigan State Room. Session 3.

Chair: Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University

Papers: Wayward Sexualities, Delinquent Mentalities, and Early Twentieth-Century Youth Experts by Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University

Child Marriage and Contests over Non-Normative Sexuality in the 1920s by Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado

Therapeutic Discipline and Queer Youth in a School forDelinquent Girls, c. 1926 by Allison Miller, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Comment: Amanda H. Littaue

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7116.html

4:45-5:45 p.m., Sheraton Parlor E

LGBTQ Historians Task Force Open Forum

Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary

Panel: Jennifer Brier, University of Illinois at Chicago

Marc Stein, York University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7195.html

7-9 p.m., Chicago Marriott Ballroom

CLGBTH Joint reception with the Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Peace History Society.

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6984.html

Saturday, January 7

9-11 a.m. AHA Session 129, CLGBTH Session 4

Twentieth Century Queer and Artistic Bohemias

Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Michigan Room A. Session 4, joint with the AHA

Chair: Daniel Hurewitz, Hunter College, City University of New York

Papers: Twilight of the Demimonde: Queer and Bohemian Radicalism and the "Liberation" of the Black Market Economy in Greenwich Village, Christopher Adam Mitchell, Rutgers University-Newark

Young and Evil Bohemia: Sex, Art, and Identity in the Queer Atlantic, 1930—39, Thomas W. Hafer, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Blue Travel at the Crossroads: Curt Moreck's Guide to "Depraved" Berlin, 1931, H. Camilla Smith, University of Birmingham

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6634.html

9-11 a.m.: CLGBTH Session 5

Building Community, Combating Phobia, Part 1: The Media's Narratives on "Patient Zero" and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Michigan State Room.

Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University

Communicative Contacts: Randy Shilts, Gaétan Dugas, and the Construction of the "Patient Zero" Myth, Richard A. McKay, King's College London

"Patient Zero" and the "Recalcitrant" Queer, Phil Tiemeyer, Philadelphia University

AIDS, the Religious Right, and Gay Sex in Late 1980s North Carolina, David C. Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Comment: Ian Lekus, Harvard University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6545.html

9-11 a.m.: CLGBTH Session 5

Building Community, Combating Phobia, Part 1: The Media's Narratives on "Patient Zero" and Gay Sex during the AIDS Epidemic

Michigan State Room ( Chicago Marriott Downtown )

Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University

Papers: Communicative Contacts: Randy Shilts, Gaétan Dugas, and the Construction of the "Patient Zero" Myth, Richard A. McKay, King's College London

"Patient Zero" and the "Recalcitrant" Queer, Phil Tiemeyer, Philadelphia University

AIDS, the Religious Right, and Gay Sex in Late 1980s North Carolina, David C. Palmer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6545.html

11:30 a.m.—1:30 p.m. CLGBTH Session 6

Building Communities, Combating Phobia, Part II: LGBT Identity, Medicine, and Health

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Michigan State Room.

Chair: Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary

Papers: Treating Men at a Lesbian Clinic: Identity Politics, Feminist Organizing, and Health Care Provision, 1979 to the Present, Judith A. Houck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"I Want You for a Free VD Test": Making Sexual Health Part of Gay Identity in Chicago, 1974—81, Catherine Batza, University of Illinois at Chicago

Black Discos, AIDS, and the Harold Washington Administration: The Making of AIDS as a Black Gay Disease, 1975—85, Tristan D. Cabello, Bowdoin College

Politicking the Gay Cancer: Electoral Intransigence and the AIDS Response in Houston, John Goins, University of Houston

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7117.html

2:30—4:30 p.m. CLGBTH Session 7.

Bodies of Evidence: Queer Oral History Methods

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Clark Room.

Chair: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Papers: Race, Class, Oral History, and the Liberation-Era Divide, Daniel W. Rivers, Emory University, Daniel W. Rivers, Emory University

Sharing Queer Authorities: Transgender Latina and Gay Latino Meanings, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, University of California, Santa Barbara

Talking about Sex: Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher Tell Their Stories, Nan Alamilla Boyd, San Francisco State University

Private Lives and Public History: Excavating the Sexual Past in Queer Oral History, Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame

2:30—4:30 p.m. CLGBTH Session 8.

Race-ing the Sexual Revolution

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Michigan State Room.

Chair: Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago

Papers: The Racial Origins of Family Values Politics: Abortion and Busing in Michigan, 1970—80, Gillian Frank, Stony Brook University

Making the Second Gay Ghetto: The Whitening of Queer Chicago from Daley to Daley, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University-Newark

Birth Control for the Masses: Experimenting Contraceptive Technologies in Asia, 1950s to 1960s, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, Brown University

Comment: Marc Stein, York University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6762.html

5-7 p.m.: Film: On These Shoulders We Stand

Sheraton Ballroom I

Glenne McElhinney, producer, writer, and director ( Impact Stories: California's LGBT History, 2009 ) . On These Shoulders We Stand is an illuminating historical account of gay life and activism in Los Angeles, told by the people who lived it. http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7287.html

Sunday, January 8

8:30—10:30 a.m. AHA Session 229, CLGBTH Session 9, joint with the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Sexing Up the "Long" 1950s, Part 1: New Narratives in U.S. Gender and Sexuality Studies

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Addison Room.

Chair: Vicki L. Eaklor, Alfred University

Papers: "A Polluted Playground": Gender, Sexuality, and the Consumption of Miami's Vice Culture, 1948—60, Julio Cap" Jr., Yale University

"Sex Anarchy" and Female Sexual "Delinquency": Young Women's Sexual Nonconformity in the 1950s United States, Amanda H. Littauer, Northern Illinois University

Queer Cities and Suburban Sin Clubs: Sexual Anxieties in American Scandal and Men's Pulp Magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, Tim Retzloff, Yale University

"Highway Girls": Sex Work Migration in the 1950s Rural South, Stephanie Chalifoux, University of Alabama

Comment: David K. Johnson, University of South Florida

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6391.html

8:30—10:30 a.m. CLGBTH Session 10

The Pleasures and Perils of LGBTQ Public History

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Michigan State Room.

Chair: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University

Papers: Sexuality and the Cities: Interdisciplinarity and the Politics of Queer Public History, Kevin P. Murphy, University of Minnesota

Creating OutHistory.org, Jonathan Ned Katz, OutHistory.org

Going Viral with Brick-and-Mortar Queer History: Opening the GLBT History Museum, Don Romesburg, Sonoma State University

Queer Histories of San Francisco's Tenderloin, Joey Plaster, Yale University; Megan Rohrer, Pacific School of Religion

Comment: Lauren Jae Gutterman, New York University

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7122.html

8:30—10:30 a.m. CLGBTH Session 11, joint with the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Lessons Learned from Integrating Minorities and Women in the U.S. Military

Chicago Marriott Downtown, Iowa Room.

Chair: Douglas Walter Bristol Jr., University of Southern Mississippi

Papers: Making Integration Work: The U.S. Military's Race Relations Initiatives of the 1970s by Douglas Walter Bristol Jr.

Update on Ending the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Movement, by David Hall, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

Elusive Integration: The Challenges of Integrating Women into the U.S. Military by Tanya L. Roth, Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School

Does the Sex of the Practitioner Matter? Sex Discrimination, Nursing, and the Army Nurse Corps in the 1950s, by Charissa J. Threat, Northeastern University

Comment: The Audience

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7161.html

11 am.-1 p.m.: AHA Session 256, CLGBTH Session 12, joint with the Conference on Latin American History.

Sexing Up the "Long" 1950s, Part 2: Urban and Transnational Narratives in the Americas and Europe

Addison Room ( Chicago Marriott Downtown )

Chair: Anne Hardgrove, University of Texas at San Antonio

Papers: "The Gestapo Lives On": West German and American Gay Activists and the Politics of Memory, Nathan Andrew Wilson, York University

Going Global, Getting Personal: Transnational Lesbian Organizing and Relationships in the Long 1950s, Dasa Francikova, University of California, Santa Barbara

Family Life and the Formation of Modern Homosexual Identity in Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1930—60, Pablo E. Ben, University of Northern Iowa

Homosexual Narratives in the Long 1950s: The Mexican Case, Ryan M. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Comment: Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6528.html

Chicago-related panels at AHA

Numerous sessions at AHA will feature the history of the Windy City.

Chicago '68: Rethinking Local Black Activism and the Battle for Urban America

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6905.html

The Other Hull House Women: Female Community Building and Feminist Networking in Twentieth-Century America ( CCWH )

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session6993.html

Walking Tour of Historic Chicago Religious Sites ( ASCH )

http://aha.confex.com/aha/2012/webprogram/Session7106.html