United States Instructor Sara Smith History Department Defining Queer What does the word queer mean What does it mean in the context of studying US history LGBTQI Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Intersex ID: 555707
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Queer History of the United States
Instructor: Sara Smith
History DepartmentSlide2
Defining Queer
What does the word “queer” mean?
What does it mean in the context of studying U.S. history?
LGBTQI: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex
Queer: anti-
assimilationist
, radical set of politics, complicates the meaning of gender and sexuality.Slide3
Visual Representation
Queer Video:
NY MTA’s “if you see something, say something” video: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v
=74O8Ils5yA8&feature=watch_response“If you see something, say something” video by Taylor Mack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccxVZXRZS8&feature=feedf_more
Question: Why is this a specifically
queer performance? Would you define the image below as queer?Queer Image? Slide4
LanguageHomosexual
transgender
Sapphist
queer
sodomite
Unmentionable vice
Deviant
Sissy
Urning
Invert
faggot
Dyke
GaySlide5
Emergent Gay/Queer History
John
D’Emilio
Jonathan Ned Katz
Caroll
Smith-Rosenberg
Martin
Duberman
Allan
BerubeSlide6
Suggestion: Reading NotesOne or two paragraphs per reading. What’s the main argument? What themes are covered? Any details stick out as particularly interesting, confusing, or troubling? What was the author’s perspective? Did the author leave anything important out?
Write a couple of thoughts down and bring your notes into class.