New and Noteworthy
BY Claire Potter ON October 26, 2015
From Nicholas Syrett and Amanda Littauer, co-chairs of the American Historical Association’s Committee for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History (CLGBTH): “This link will take you to a blog post on the AHA’s website highlighting the program we’ve put together for this year’s AHA in Atlanta. Thanks to all the scholars who assembled or agreed to serve on panels. We’re excited to see you all in Atlanta!” Consider joining: for you senior historians, a lifetime membership is still a smokin’ hot deal at $300. For those who already became lifetime members at bargain-basement prices, try to remember what rate you joined at and top it up to $300.- U.S. Olympian Gus Kenworthy, silver medalist in freestyle skiing at last year’s Sochi Winter Games, came out as gay in a cover story for ESPN the Magazine (New York Times, October 22 2015.)
- Dallin Oaks, a leading Mormon Church elder, isn’t endorsing Adam and Steve, but has issues a public statement that Kim Davis and other public officials are not above the law (New York Times, October 23 2015.) If you know anything about the history of the Mormon Church, and the difficulty it has had reigning in splinter groups that still practice plural marriage, this makes perfect sense.
- Turns out Sappho may have been the first lesbian Mom! Dana Rudolph on the history of LGBT families (Pridesource, October 22 2015.)
- Rutgers historian Timothy Stewart-Winter argues that *trans students are building on a history of feminist campus activism when they fight gender discrimination in higher ed (Chronicle of Higher Education October 18 2015.)
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