News and Announcements
BY Claire Potter ON October 20, 2014
OutHistory co-Director John D’Emilio is on the left.
Chicago area independent bookstore celebrates LGBT History Month: OutHistory.org co-director and UIC Emeritus Professor of History John D’Emilio was one of several speakers at Bookends & Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL hosted the event on October 17. One topic of discussion was how little known the LGBT past still is, almost half a century after the liberation movement began. “Audience member Larry Lesperence, adviser of the Gay Straight Alliance at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, shared his own difficulties in the discussion session at the event,” wrote Hal Jin of The Daily Northwestern. “Lesperence said he is unable to take his club to see the Legacy Walk because the parents of GSA members needed to sign a release form, an impossible arrangement for a club that is comprised mainly of closeted LGBT people.” Read the whole story here.
Queer this conference: “The University of Maryland, College Park’s History Graduate Student Association will hold its its 10th Annual History Graduate Student Conference on Friday, February 27, 2015. This year’s themes is “Metamorphosis: Transformations of Borders, Identity, and Place.” The conference organizers invite submissions of research proposals from M.A. and Ph.D. students in history or other disciplines. For more information, visit the conference website. Deadline: December 5 2014.
What’s Fabulous About Kansas? OutHistory.org wants to congratulate our colleague Katie Batza, an assistant professor in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Kansas. Last week Batza signed a contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press for her book, Before AIDS: Health, Sexuality, and Politics in the 1970s. In addition, we look forward to welcoming Katie as a blogger on this site in the coming months.
Update on California’s FAIR Act: Sonoma County’s local newspaper, The Press Democrat reports on the proposed LGBT history curriculum spearheaded by the AHA Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History.
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