Going Gay at the AHA
BY Claire Potter ON January 1, 2015
Cary Grant models inappropriate convention wear for your edification.
A version of this post appeared yesterday at Tenured Radical:
Following up on yesterday’s suggestions for out-of-towners, we asked Flirtatious Freddie, our tenured ace reporter, where queer historians might want to make new friends or dance with old ones. We got this reply:
“The hottest club that seems to make NYC feel like NYC is Viva but the cover is $30–Saturday night,” Freddie tells us. Tenured Radical researchers looked it up and saw that “shirtlessness is encouraged but not required.” Use your judgement, full professors! “There is no cover but plenty of dancing at Industry in Hells Kitchen, only a few blocks from the Hilton,” Freddie continues, “while Atlas Social Club, also quite near, is good early — between 11pm and 1:30am most weekend nights. In general, there are a dozen bars in Hells Kitchen — Boxers, Flaming Saddles, Therapy, Bar-tini—all are within walking distance of either the Hilton or the Sheraton. Late night, cruisey bars include East Village, The Cock ($10 cover); Eagle, leather bar (no cover, but don’t wear your interviewing clothes!)”
Lesbians, like Beebo Brinker did so many years ago, may still want to head on down to the Village: The Stonewall Inn is mixed space where men and women can have fun together, while at the same time telling folks at home they were out visiting a national landmark. The Cubbyhole is still there (depending on when you were last in New York, it may have moved); as is Henrietta Hudson, where old-school dykes will appreciate the pool table. Newer places include The Fat Black Pussycat. Staying with friends in Dyke Slope? There’s Ginger’s Bar.
Queer Intimacies and the Remaking of Late Twentieth-Century American Politics, Gramercy Suite B (New York Hilton, Second Floor), 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Chair:/Comment: Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Rethinking Lesbian Separatism as a Vibrant Political Theory and Feminist Practice, Julie Enszer, University of Maryland at College Park
The Female World of Love and New Possibilities: Same-Sex Intimacies and the Reimagination of 1970s American Public Life, David Palmer, New York University
“No One Needs to Know You’re Listening”: Bridging Suburb and City with Gay Radio in 1970s Detroit, Tim Retzloff, Michigan State University
Beyond the Binary: Early America and the Writing of Trans* History, Midtown Suite (New York Hilton, Fourth Floor), 1:00-3:00
Chair: Rachel Hope Cleves, University of Victoria
Panel:
Greta LaFleur, Yale University
Scott Larson, George Washington University
Sean Trainor, Pennsylvania State University
Queer Movements: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Social Movement Era, Conference Room E (Sheraton New York, Lower Level), 3:30-5:30
Chair: Emily Thuma, University of California, Irvine
The Seventies, Sexuality, and the Profusion of Entangled Events, Roderick Ferguson, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Making Space for Pauli Murray: Transformations in a Queer Politics and a Queer Life, Dayo Gore, University of California, San Diego
Left Out: Situating Stigma in U.S. Radical and Left Social Movement History, Christina B. Hanhardt, University of Maryland at College Park
Rules of the Craft: Apophasis and Occult Politics in the Gay Liberation Movement, Abram J. Lewis, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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