The Emergence of the Invisible Deviant circa 1950 - And What That Meant for Queer U.S. History

Monday, September 27, 2010

Lesbian/gay history and transgender history have usually been written independent of, sometimes in explicit competition with, each other. Focusing first on a constellation of noteworthy events around 1950, this talk outlines the patterns that emerge if one tracks the combined history of same-sex and cross-gender in the United States from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century.